Female Roles Quotes

• Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn't hand us enough variety to choose from.

  Beth Ditto

  Hands, Female Role Models, Identity

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2008.

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• I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts too.

  Jessica Brown Findlay

  Strong, Roles, Female

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I hate to disappoint my haters, but I'm not the least bit interested in being a man. I'm perfectly satisfied with the female role.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Hate, Men, Female

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• I want to set the example my mother set for me: a strong female role model who faces challenges takes risks and conquers fears. I want my children to know that as women they can do whatever they dream as long as they believe in themselves. More than anything it is my responsibility to instill in my daughters the knowledge that they can have a family and everything else too.

  Mireya Mayor

  Daughter, Mother, Dream

  Mireya Mayor (2011). “Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey From NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer”, p.299, National Geographic Books

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• I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order. The point is, I find the female roles out there very cliché. If we are limited to being only lovers or mothers, we are limiting ourselves.

  Connie Nielsen

  Mother, Order, Female

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Aging is fraught with difficulties, most particularly for women who have been socialized to think of youth as beauty and the female role as reproduction.

  Margaret M. Lock

  Thinking, Age, Roles

  Margaret M. Lock (1994). “Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America”, p.35, Univ of California Press

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• Female roles in comedies are usually quite silly, I think.

  Naomi Watts

  Silly, Thinking, Female

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It's hard because I seek out strong female roles. I turn down a lot of stuff, not because it's not good, but because I don't want to play certain types of characters. I don't like to just play the pretty girl.

  Gina Holden

  Girl, Strong, Character

  "Gina Holden Talks Syfy’s JULES VERNE'S MYSTERIOUS ISLAND and FRINGE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 13, 2012.

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• Feminism is lesbian in the sense that lesbians have always hated the female role and coveted the male role. It is based on Marxist notions of "equality" and class conflict that have no relevance to mystical and biological phenomenon such as love.

  Henry Makow

  Class, Feminism, Female

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• I think you're just always trying to find really great, interesting female roles. That's the thing for me. You do have to think about what you're signing up for.

  Georgina Haig

  Thinking, Always Trying, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• Television is also a great tool for women. As you know, the best female roles are often on television, so it's a very exciting time. I've really embraced it. The pace is great, but also not so great sometimes. You feel like you have to make sure to pay attention, at all times, to not let anything slip through.

  Diane Kruger

  Female, Roles, Tools

  "Diane Kruger Talks THE BRIDGE Season 2, Emotional Stoicism, Her Character’s Complexity, Differences from Season 1, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 9, 2014.

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• I don't really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles.

  Romola Garai

  Thinking, Play, Female

  Source: collider.com

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• There was one female role, which was Emily. When I did the audition, I flubbed up. It was my first audition back from Christmas break, and I flubbed up and was devastated. In the audition room, they were like, "Oh, you did great!," but you never really know. So, I left the audition in tears.

  Tinsel Korey

  Tears, Female, Roles

  "Tinsel Korey Exclusive Interview THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 29, 2010.

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• For a long time, way back in the ’30s and ’40s, there were fabulous female roles. Bette Davis and all those people had incredible, great roles. After World War II, something happened where it was not only "get out of the factories," but "get out of the movies." That's when women's roles started to really [change].

  Geena Davis

  War, Long, People

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn't turned out to be an awful burden. I get a lot of letters from women who tell me that, after watching Xena, they have bought the Harley-Davidson they always wanted or left an abusive relationship.

  Lucy Lawless

  Female Role Models, Roles, Letters

  "Is it a bird?". The Sunday Times, July 27, 1997.

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• There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around.

  Keri Russell

  Female Role Models, Roles, Looks

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I think the culture today is very, very different from what it was in the '60s, and I feel lucky that I grew up at a time when I had these very strong female role models.

  Susanna Hoffs

  Strong, Thinking, Female Role Models

  "Sweetheart Of The Sun & Modern Art : Chatting With The Bangles’ Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2011.

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• The Blood She Betrayed is unique, and Shahkara, the character, is one of the most engaging strong female role models I’ve seen in a long time. This girl can handle herself! The plot is full of ingenious twists, turns and surprises, and I look forward to reading the next book in the series.

  L. J. Smith

  Girl, Strong, Book

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• You know, right now, they say - I don't know who says this, but somebody told me - there's three male roles to every female role. And I guess I'd work on evening that up. Making great roles for women. It's just such a huge challenge

  Anna Faris

  Challenges, Males, Female

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• I had female role models to look up to starting in middle school, athletes like Julie Foudy and Mia Hamm who made me realize that there was room in the world of sports for women. They ignited my dream of becoming an Olympic athlete.

  Jennie Finch

  Sports, Dream, Athlete

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• I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize

  Warren Farrell

  Sports, Team, Thinking

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• I guess the characters I play may be at the more destructive edge of the spectrum, more damaged or whatever, but I find a lot of female roles uninteresting.

  Lili Taylor

  Character, Play, Female

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Why, in our culture, do so many discussions of male/female roles seem so painful, unfair, unreal, unfunny, and even preposterous?  Because of men who demand submission from their wives but in turn submit themselves to no one, including God … We cannot blame women for being frustrated because they fear the injustice of being under headship that itself is not accountable.

  Stu Weber

  Men, Wife, Frustrated

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• But it is Bella, not the supernaturals she falls in with, who is the true horror show here, at least as a female role model.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Fall, Female Role Models, Roles

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• For acting, if there's a strong female role and there is that action element, for me that just feels really natural.

  Marisa Miller

  Strong, Acting, Female

  "Marisa Miller is Wired". Interview With Laurie Kamens, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 17, 2013.

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