Female Quotes

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male. (Simone de Beauvoir)
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. View quote
Christian Dior
There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl. View quote
Joan Rivers
For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities. View quote
John Updike
Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink, I think female alcoholics should be told not to fuck. View quote
George Carlin
The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave. View quote
James Connolly
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. View quote
Colette
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place. View quote
Margaret Drabble
If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts. View quote
Camille Paglia
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. (Rudyard Kipling)
Remember that a picture, before being a battle horse, a female nude or some sort of anecdote, is essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order. View quote
Maurice Denis
Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes from their bodies, so on a very basic level, they have more to write about. View quote
Brandon Boyd
Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them. View quote
Terry Pratchett
My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth. View quote
Barbara Stanwyck
We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them. View quote
Famke Janssen
I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape. View quote
Christian Dior
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so. View quote
Robert Frost
Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation. View quote
Margaret Mead
The endearing elegance of female friendship. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant. (Margaret Atwood)
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes. View quote
Arianna Huffington
Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black. View quote
Shirley Chisholm
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. View quote
Margaret Fuller
Biologically speaking, if something bites you, it is more likely to be female. View quote
Desmond Morris