Female Quotes - page 31

There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters. (Madeleine M. Kunin)
I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom. View quote
Mallory Ortberg
When I was a physics major in the late 1970s, my very few fellow female students and I had high hopes that women would soon stand equal with men in science. But progress has proved slower than many of us imagined. View quote
Margaret Wertheim
It's very important to me that people accept me as a transgendered female. But it's ridiculous to a lot of people and I understand that. View quote
Alexis Arquette
Yes, I am transgendered but I also am a cross-dresser - I dress as a woman. It's not that I just want to be seen as a female in our society, I'm also a drag queen and a performer - there are many levels there. View quote
Alexis Arquette
A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes. View quote
Carly Craig
To me, acting is all about hard work and talent. Once you get your first wrinkle, if you are a female actress, nobody will care about what you look like - it's all about what you can do. View quote
Dominik Garcia-Lorido
What's so great about playing a female lead, especially in law enforcement, is that these women do exist, and they're really quite interesting. They're fascinating. View quote
Emily Rose
In inquiring concerning the benefits of the plan proposed, I shall proceed upon the supposition that female seminaries will be patronized throughout our country. View quote
Emma Willard
All leaders, male or female, innately possess feminine qualities like empathy, candor and vulnerability - the difference lies in which leaders choose to suppress those qualities, and which choose to leverage them as strengths. View quote
John Gerzema
Something I always admire, especially in female comedians, is that they're willing to make themselves look terrible. (Jorma Taccone)
South Korea first allowed women into the military in 1950 during the Korean War. Back then, female soldiers mainly held administrative and support positions. Women began to take on combat roles in the 1990s when the three military academies, exclusive to men, began accepting women. View quote
Kim Young-ha
From the Twitter responses we got with 'Best Friends Forever' and the small feedback we are getting as the show is meted out, I think people are seeing themselves in the show and enjoying seeing female friendship portrayed in the way it really is. View quote
Lennon Parham
Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am' like Barbara Boxer did? This is the kind of sanctimonious self-absorption on the modern left that makes my teeth itch. View quote
Mark Davis
I think what really matters is the support you get in football regardless of the uniform you wear. Some girls feel good playing in long shorts, while some of them feel good playing in tighter shorts. I'm not against it. It's obvious that women have to explore that female side of things, and I don't think that's a mistake. View quote
Marta
Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier. View quote
Marya Mannes
It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength. View quote
Meghan O'Rourke
I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist. View quote
Melanie Fiona
I love female singer-songwriters! View quote
Melissa Benoist
Sometimes I take a movie selfishly because it's a female lead. View quote
Melissa George
I haven't had a lot of experience with glamour. I've never had to mask myself, as many now not-so-young actresses have had to do. Female actors in that regard have a different lot in life than male actors. (Melissa Leo)
Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche. View quote
Melissa Pritchard
I'm not saying that 'Twilight' is, you know, some brilliant Oscar-winner, it's not 'Dr. Zhivago.' It's not trying to be. Because it is a female fantasy. I would argue that it's actually a universal fantasy. Which is, the fantasy being to be loved and cherished for exactly who you are. View quote
Melissa Rosenberg
I grew up in a family of predominantly female bread winners who are strong and are fierce and opinionated. There's not enough women like that on the screen. View quote
Melonie Diaz
The problem isn't that Silicon Valley is keeping women down or not doing enough to encourage female entrepreneurs. The opposite is true. No, the problem is that not enough women want to become entrepreneurs. View quote
Michael Arrington