Female Quotes - Page 24

It's a little simplistic to say trans men are privileged because they're men. I was socialized female and I transitioned at 25, so I experienced a hell of a lot of gender discrimination in a lot of directions growing up.

No woman's getting hired because of her potential. I hope that we can invest more in female potential.

Exploring female rage on film doesn't frighten me - it might frighten a lot of people in my business, but, gosh, I know a lot about that, from personal experience and friends' experiences.

It's hard to find female leads that are flawed and interesting and dynamic.

I do not consciously reclaim. I am not those "some readers" and so I think it would be impossible for me to see my work that way, as reclaiming a preserve. I write in a way that is aimed at all levels - conscious and unconscious - at pleasing the kind of reader I am. Some of the authors I read are male, some are female, and some are even in between. And speaking of in between, maybe now is as good a moment as any to point out that there might be no "feminine" or "masculine" literary sensibility, or sensibility generally.

An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.

I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.

I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can't be all about a man's opinion.

The females don't respect themselves; they only think materialistically. They want money, but they don't think, I'm gonna get this money on my own, they think, I'm gonna get money from this guy.

Roxanne Shanté was kind of the first female to really come out and get respected by dudes, because she went at dudes real hard and battled them and freestyled a lot, and really came off the head a lot.

I'm really attracted to strong women. Let me rephrase that, I'm really attracted to strong female characters.

Although it is a symbol of life, the female body is unfortunately not rarely attacked and disfigured, even by those who should be its protector and life companion.

Maybe there is a feeling that women get judged more about how they look and how they present themselves visually as opposed to what they are thinking and feeling. Especially as a female performer that happens a lot, and I think that is regressing even more, which I find really sad.

I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.

Carry your Bible and live by it. There's a better chance that you will stay married if that much is true for either one of you - male or female.

You see, being bald and wearing that gray starship uniform, I would have looked like a boy. I wanted to look like a sexy female.

But it is Bella, not the supernaturals she falls in with, who is the true horror show here, at least as a female role model.

I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come

Any ensemble - they didn't call it "the all-male Expendables," for example. But it's Hollywood's fault that people say that, because there have been so few movies that have allowed women to have these leading roles, so that's Hollywood's fault.

I hate that we're always called "the all-female Ghostbusters," because you wouldn't refer to the original as "the all-male Ghostbusters."

to speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal.

I think that I can count on the fingers of one hand the times you've actually said the word ‘women' and not replaced it with an epithet referring to female genitalia." "Hey, he's not that bad," Warren said. "Sometimes he calls them cows or whores.

I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954.

I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship is entirely possible.

If you're a female and you get asked by someone who shoots the most beautiful female scenes to be in their film, it's kind of exciting.