Quotes of: Female-character Keyword

In order to approximate those shapes and attitudes which are considered normal and desirable, both sexes deform themselves, justifying the process by referring to the primary, genetic difference between the sexes. But of forty-eight chromosomes only ...

The Female Eunuch

Female castration results in concentration of her feelings upon her male companion, and her impotence in confrontations with her own kind. Because all her love is guided by the search for security, if not for her offspring then for her crippled and f...

The Female Eunuch

I do think it's well over-time to have a female Doctor Who. I think a gay, black female Doctor Who would be the best of all.

Helen Mirren

Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.

Katherine Dunn

It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.

Danica Patrick

Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.

Angel Haze

Whatever is deeply, essentially female--the life in a woman's expression, the feel of her flesh, the shape of her breasts, the transformations after childbirth of her skin--is being reclassified as ugly, and ugliness as disease. These qualities are a...

The Beauty Myth

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

Communion: The Female Search for Love

Many of the signals that either stoke or diminish female desire have to do with the female brain's question: Is it safe here?

Vagina: A New Biography

I'm listening to a lot of Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, and Rihanna. A lot of pop female artists. I have to say I'm pretty well-versed in the pop female category.

Steve Carell

If you're a female and you get asked by someone who shoots the most beautiful female scenes to be in their film, it's kind of exciting.

Norah Jones

Female rappers get it the hardest. You have to be a girl, yet you have to be just as hard as the guys. I think some female rappers get scared out of the business before they can make it.

Nicki Minaj

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.

Billie Jean King

Female success stories from sporting events like the Olympic Games have played a role in shifting the Indian perception to see the female athlete as a hero and a role model for young Indian girls.

Richard Attias

I think female-female relationships interest me so much more because they're so encoded. There is kind of a psychic element that happens within groups of women.

Heidi Julavits

A lot of my female fans discovered me through the passion I have for bettering myself. Not to say the dudes don't, but my female fan-base is based off women who want to do better.

Wale

Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women’s bodies as aesthetic objects without function we deform them and their owners. Whether the curves imposed are the ebullien...

The Female Eunuch

Cocoa-buttered girls were stretched out on the public beach in apparently random alignments, but maybe if a weather satellite zoomed in on one of those bodies and then zoomed back out, the photos would show the curving beach itself was another woman,...

American Salvage

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America

The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles.

The Female Eunuch

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.

Angela Carter