Female Quotes - Page 32

There are clear differences between and some- and there may be protective factors in a female brain.

Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners.

Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

I immediately noticed there were far more male characters than female characters in the programs, even now, in the 21st century.

Behind the cameras, there's a different problem, which I think is not unconscious gender bias. It's probably categorized more as conscious gender bias. Because everybody's known the numbers for decades. Nobody's stunned to hear there are very few female directors, only 4 or 7 percent. Everybody knows, but it doesn't change anything. It doesn't make people say, "Wow! We should change that." Nothing happens. It's utterly stagnant.

The creators of kids' media had no idea they were leaving out that many female characters. They were in utter shock that the worlds they were creating were so bereft of female presences.

It's either good, bad or somewhere in between. It's either ying, yang or it's a combination. You're either male, female or somewhere in between. You've got to be somewhere on the map.

There's a sense of productivity which cripples us terribly. We either have to be doing something worthwile or not. We are back to our little binary male-female code.

Male and female are the first things we learn because they represent the polarity of existence.

As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.

There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.

What is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the differences.

As an actor, especially one who's worked in casting, you read so many scripts, and some of them are terrible. They're terrible and they're getting made, and some of them are good but the female role is just painful or underwritten. So after years of that, I had this idea kicking around in my head for two years, and I thought, I'm just going to start writing.

My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.

I looked at [Geena Davis] research and see things like 21 percent of filmmakers are women, only 31 percent of speaking roles in popular films are female - you start seeing it everywhere. It's so much bigger. So you've uncovered this groundbreaking data and research.

We need female advocates. I'd love to live in a world where there are as many women in parliament as men.

I'm always excited and enthusiastic to have women join the technical side of the industry. Without making ridiculous stereotypes, which this might be, I have had clients - male and female - who said they feel more comfortable working with a woman in the mastering capacity for various reasons.

The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored social class.

I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general.

But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?

I was the female lead in a romantic comedy. It's a little indie film that we shot in China called 'America Town,' starring Daniel Henney and Bill Paxton. I actually had to speak Chinese in the film. It was funny because I found out I was doing the film and then a week later, I was in Shanghai.

I was trained classically, and that's something that I want to do, but I do want to say that right now it's a good market for female comedians, and I want to explore that right now. I really do want to do dramas and meatier roles, especially film.

In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on the case to solve it.

Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted.

Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.