Female Quotes - Page 33

Men have never really been encouraged to listen to their intuition, or told that they have an intuition. It's been more of a female thing, at least according to our society, but that's not true at all.

I love comedy; I'm super passionate about it, and thank God it's super in right now to have female empowered comedies.

Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.

The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.

Television is also a great tool for women. As you know, the best female roles are often on television, so it's a very exciting time. I've really embraced it. The pace is great, but also not so great sometimes. You feel like you have to make sure to pay attention, at all times, to not let anything slip through.

I'm intrigued more and more by complex female characters because I'm more in touch with myself. I realize how screwed up or complex I am. And I'm flattered that, little by little, more and more directors want to meet me.

The female perspective is what I relate to and I understand it. I find it fascinating. I like to see women in challenging situations and see how they deal with it or don't deal with it.

I wanted a more female point of view.

We don't have music that talks about sexuality from a female standpoint.

We live in an imbalanced society when it comes to encouraging male sexuality and discouraging female sexuality.

There's still sexism in the world, so there's still sexism in publishing and in graduate school. But it is different. Now, it's more coded and harder to detect. It was more explicit when I was in school. There were no rules against male professors asking out female students. The reverse didn't happen since female professors were rare or nonexistent. Visiting writers came, 90% of them male, and some expected that a female student would materialize as his date for the visit.

If I were writing about Picasso and pointed out that he painted women because he was interested in the female form, that would seem like an obvious point. I don't know why people revolt when I point out that Rockwell painted the male figure and was interested in it.

I have a female colleague who gets annoyed that Tina Fey seems to go out of her way in her movies to deride her looks, as if she weren't such an attractive woman.

At least 15 percent of human females possess a genetic mutation that gives them an extra (fourth) type of color photoreceptor - and this allows them to discriminate between colors that look identical to the majority of us with a mere three types of color photoreceptors.

And it's one more shitty thing to write about somebody, in between getting really, really, really upset at female Ghostbusters and Gamergate, and the things that really matter.

In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female.

That's the world of policing. I've met some bad-ass female cops, who are very cool people.

The female biologically [has] more potential to show affection and compassion.

The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.

The big story is Bruce Jenner. In last week's interview, Jenner said he's a woman who is transitioning his body from male to female, and he's also a conservative Republican. Bruce said he looks forward to bashing Obamacare as soon as he finishes using it.

Great minds think alike-especially when they are female.

People don't always want to have females as leaders.

I am interested in all things that celebrate and enhance the female form.

A female piano player is always pretty cool to me.

The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.