Female Quotes - page 6

Male love circuits get an extra kick when stress levels are high. After an intense physical challenge, for instance, males will bond quickly and sexually with the first willing female they lay eyes on. Women, by contrast, will rebuff advances or expressions of affection and desire when under stress. The reason may be that the stress hormone cortisol blocks oxytocin's action in the female brain, abruptly shutting off a woman's desire for sex and physical touch. (Louann Brizendine)
The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle. View quote
Naomi Wolf
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. View quote
Naomi Wolf
The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred. View quote
Naomi Wolf
Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976. View quote
Cathy Guisewite
I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page. View quote
Cathy Guisewite
Cartooning is a wonderful career, and I'd like more women to get to have it. I can't think of any reason why we won't see more syndicated female cartoonists in the future. View quote
Cathy Guisewite
It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional. View quote
Billie Jean King
My protagonists, male and female, are me. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
A male usually had made up his mind before you began to talk to him -so why bother?- but a female, because her mind was more supple, was always prepared to become more disappointed in you than she had yet suspected possible. View quote
Gregory Maguire
The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming. (Sandra Day O'Connor)
I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it. View quote
Elizabeth Peters
I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody) View quote
Elizabeth Peters
I think the must-have power qualities for a female or male power leader are really the ability to focus, to work hard, to be extremely goal oriented and to not let the noise and the nonsense interfere with your mission - what you really feel you want to do with your career and your life. View quote
Anne Sweeney
I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men. View quote
Valentina Tereshkova
Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two. View quote
Franz Marc
I'm not convinced that what are traditionally considered to be male energies or qualities or female energies or qualities really have as much to do with gender as many people think they do. View quote
Andrew Cohen
The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego. View quote
Andrew Cohen
There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones. View quote
Agnes Smedley
In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly. View quote
Al Roker
In terms of the black female audience, usually if you're true to that character but more so in your body of work if you've proven that you love your sisters and you proven you will come back home like in 42.4% they'll give you a pass when you jump ship. I hear it all the time. (Blair Underwood)
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies. View quote
Bruce Jay Friedman
One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female. View quote
Barbara Smith
Swan Lake is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training. View quote
Benjamin Millepied
We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves. View quote
Bernie Worrell