Female Quotes
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“I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. Later I would discover this was endemic among female human beings. Anger is supposed to be "unfeminine" so we suppress it -until it overflows. I could see that not speaking up made my mother feel worse. This was my first hint of the truism that depression is anger turned inward; thus women are twice as likely to be depressed.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“I had been silent and silenced about an abortion I'd had years before. Like many women, I'd been made to feel at fault, not realizing there were political reasons why female humans were not supposed to make decisions about our own bodies.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“I was angry about the human talent that was lost just because it was born into a female body, and the mediocrity that was rewarded because it was born into a male one. And”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“And perhaps, those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films, with women at the center are niche experience, they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.”
Quote by -Cate Blanchett
“Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“That’s why male adults, and some females too, experience the presence of a strong woman as a dangerous regression to a time of their own vulnerability and dependence.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“Perhaps because women are seen as good listeners, I find that a traveling woman—perhaps especially a traveling feminist—becomes a kind of celestial bartender.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. ”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
“As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; the female sex.
Quote by -Mahatama Gandhi
I'm the one who started redevelopment in South Los Angeles, not Jan Perry. I did it. I love Jan. She's a good person, and she did a wonderful job with what she did downtown, but in L.A., South L.A., I'm the one.
Quote by -Magic Johnson
I got blessed from my mom. She's the personality; she's the one who smiled, so I took on part of her, and who also wanted to help and save the world. Then I took on part of my dad, who is tough.
Quote by -Magic Johnson
Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.
Quote by -Mae West
So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.
Quote by -Madeleine Albright
I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.
Quote by -Madeleine Albright
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
Quote by -Lyndon B. Johnson
"I do think there are some great female comics: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph. They're the whole ball of wax."
Quote by -Carol Burnett
"Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face."
Quote by -David Sedaris
I only want impossible things," she said roughly. "The others don't interest me.
Quote by -Willa Cather
I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
Quote by -Toni Morrison
The loss pressed down on her chest and came up into her throat. it was a fine cry -- loud and long -- but it had no bottom and no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
Quote by -Toni Morrison
Now he knew why he loved her so. Without ever leaving the ground, she could fly. 'There must be another one like you,' he whispered to her. 'There's got to be at least one more woman like you.
Quote by -Toni Morrison
O Lord, Sula,” she cried, “girl, girl, girlgirlgirl.” It was a fine cry—loud and long—but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
Quote by -Toni Morrison
There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
Quote by -Salma Hayek
There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
Quote by -Salma Hayek
“Soon she would have to start her nighttime routine of cleaning up the house, getting herself ready for bed, taking off her makeup,”
Quote by -Russell Brunson
People who cling rigidly to gender binaries are more than welcome to. But for a lot of young people, we're seeing that our gender roles don't have to be dictated by a set of rules made by society. We can do whatever feels natural to us.
Quote by -Courtney Act
I sort of throw away the definitions of gender - that boys are 'supposed' to wear blue and girls are 'supposed' to wear pink - and those gender roles and gender presentations. I do it on my own terms rather than based on what other people say I should do.
Quote by -Courtney Act
For people living with HIV, the knowledge that undetectable equals untransmittable is huge news, not only as a means of preventing transmission, but in breaking down the stigma that many people still experience.
Quote by -Courtney Act
When someone is saying something bigoted, try and remember that that person actually just doesn't understand, and that it comes from a level of ignorance, or from socialised brainwashing, or religious ideas.
Quote by -Courtney Act
I remember my first Mardi Gras. It was in the year 2001. I decided earlier that day that I was going to go in drag. It was my third time in drag.
Quote by -Courtney Act
It's a common misunderstanding, that when a bisexual person is dating someone of the opposite sex that they are now straight, or if they are dating someone of the same sex they are now gay.
Quote by -Courtney Act
On New Year's Eve, 2000, my friends and I were going to a party in Melbourne and I decided to do it in drag. It was the happiest night of my life.
Quote by -Courtney Act
I'm no Joan of Arc, but it's pretty revolutionary having a gender illusionist selling the illusion of beauty to females.
Quote by -Courtney Act
Drag can make you a little more fearless and I think girls especially love drag because they get to see somebody define their own standard of feminine beauty.
Quote by -Courtney Act
I know when there's lots of stuff racing around in my head it can be hard to sleep and stay asleep. And one of the biggest things that used to keep me awake at night was worrying about my gender and sexuality.
Quote by -Courtney Act
I'm just looking at other opportunities, television... not so much another existing reality show, but more about creating stuff.
Quote by -Courtney Act