Quotes of: Female-artists Keyword

We teach girls shame. Close your legs; cover yourself. We make them feel as though being born female, they're already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they tru...

Chimamamda Ngozi Adichie

In short, we would discover, as we should already, that logic is in the eye of the logician. (For instance, here's an idea for theorists and logicians: if women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cyc...

Gloria Steinem

An education is truly "fitted for freedom" only if it is such as to produce free citiens, citizen who are free not because of wealth or birth, they can call their minds their own. Male or female, they have looked nto themselves and developed the abil...

Darren Cambridge

The most dangerous drink is gin. You have to be really, really careful with that. And you also have to be 45, female and sitting on the stairs. Because gin isn't really a drink, it's more a mascara thinner. "Nobody likes my shoes!" "I made... I made ...

Dylan Moran

Distraught Male Voice: I just can't go on. I'm not good any more, goodbye... goodbye... aaaargh... Aaaargh. [a leaf falls to the ground] Distraught Female Voice: Oh my God. What'll I do? I can't live without him... I... aaaargh. [Another leaf falls] ...

The Meaning of Life

[Helen complains about her role] Helen Sinclair: She's dowdy. Sid, the ingenue has all the hot lines. Even the female psychiatrist is a better role. Sid Loomis: But the role of Sylvia Poston is the lead. Helen Sinclair: "Sylvia Poston." Even the *nam...

Bullets Over Broadway

Celine: I don't think we should sleep together. I mean, I want to, but since we're never gonna see each other again, it will make me feel bad. I'll wonder who else you're with. I'll miss you. Celine: I know. It's not very adult. Maybe it's a female t...

Before Sunrise

Hang you, DeVere! She's a close friend, nothing more." He furrowed his brow once again. "Though I do fear of late that she entertains some...expectations." "You think the young widow may aspire to quite another surrogate role? They all do, ol' chap. ...

Victoria Vane

The terrible things that happen to us,” Tessa said slowly. “What we do with them...I think that’s what makes us artists.

The Color of Light

The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.

Darconville’s Cat

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s

Dhalgren

We [artists] aren't people, not the way most people are. We're just...carriers. Little boats bringing goods from foreign lands.

The Dead Isle

The artist says to the cosmos: All I ask is infinite love-is that so very wrong? And the cosmos doesn't even bother to respond.

The Debt to Pleasure

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

My heart balloons with admiration for these talented artists, which I so desperately want to be

Finding Home: A Creative Journey on a Trip Around the World

I rein myself in. I’m already breaking up with the guy. I don’t have to ruin his favorite movie.

The Break-Up Artist

The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.

The Bells of Bruges

In these electric times the criminal receives a cosmopolitan reputation. It is a privilege he shares with few other artists.

The Big Bow Mystery

But you're an artist. you should know there's more to a story than the part happening right now.

The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z.

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

Willem de Kooning