Female Quotes - Page 10

• A lot of times I don't know if I trust the director to tell that film's story. Or I think it's inappropriate for a male director to tell a female story, or a white director to tell a black story. Everyone walks away from a movie differently, because you're relating it to your own life.

  Kiersey Clemons

  Thinking, Black, Inappropriate

  Source: www.elle.com

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• No one's female and male, we all have so many different traits. It's just a lie that these certain traits are male and these certain traits are female.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Lying, Different, Traits

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think it's really important that women support each other. I've heard of a very successful female director saying she doesn't identify as being a feminist or a woman in Hollywood. And I understand that, but I feel so differently. It's so important to identify as a woman and have a voice, to understand that it's different from a male voice, and to understand the nuances that go into that. I love women. I think I'm a girl's girl. It's super important that we have a voice in the industry.

  Tara Subkoff

  Girl, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• As a female filmmaker it's important to have a voice for and about women. We have a lot of valuable stories to tell and young girls need to hear them.

  Tara Subkoff

  Girl, Important, Filmmaker

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Everybody, male or female, needs to possess qualities that they expect others to uphold. Being aware of yourself and your actions allows you to assess your shortcomings in an honest way.

  Tig Notaro

  Quality, Action, Honest

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Women's sexuality is something that is a very touchy subject for a lot of women...I had to free my body from all of the binding, all the shutting down, and all of the censorship I had already put on it. When I did that, everything in my life changed. My relationship with my husband changed. My relationship to the world changed. My relationship to my body changed. My relationship to my female friends changed in huge ways.

  Sheila Kelley

  Husband, Life Changing, World

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think the culture of the feminine needs to be reinvigorated and women need to build a culture that is connected all over the globe to reinforce this new-found power in the body. Women have been divided to be conquered. No one person did this. It's been a cultural evolution. The masculine nature is very out there and vocal and very much espousing their point of view, and God bless them. The female culture needs to learn to do the same.

  Sheila Kelley

  Thinking, Culture, Evolution

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• When looking at female body builders and reading about the industry and the culture, their bodies just break down. They end up having to get breast implants and not having menstrual cycles. The obsession of pushing your physical self way beyond what nature is expecting is really interesting. I liked the idea of these women; it's their career, but it's also their obsession.

  Wardell Milan

  Reading, Interesting, Culture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I know that a lot of feminist fears about the trans movement have been, "Wait, we never got to the part where we focus on women! We tried for a minute, but we don't want to lose the category all of a sudden. We haven't heard yet from the females with children called mothers, we haven't heard yet from all these groups!" On the one hand I'm very sympathetic to that, but the category of Women or Mothers, any of these categories, are on shifting sands and always have been.

  Maggie Nelson

  Mother, Children, Feminist

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I guess the biggest difference between me and many of today's female graduate students is that a lot of them were raised by mothers with careers, and they got college degrees studying with female professors. Both of those factors make the enterprise of educating yourself for a serious profession seem feasible.

  Debra Monroe

  Mother, College, Serious

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's still sexism in the world, so there's still sexism in publishing and in graduate school. But it is different. Now, it's more coded and harder to detect. It was more explicit when I was in school. There were no rules against male professors asking out female students. The reverse didn't happen since female professors were rare or nonexistent. Visiting writers came, 90% of them male, and some expected that a female student would materialize as his date for the visit.

  Debra Monroe

  School, World, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When Derek Miller and I started working together, we had a very clear vision for the sound of the band. It was one which combined our favorite musical elements: driving guitars, bombastic beats, and female vocals. We've always been interested in making music that is essentially pop but that steps outside of the traditional formula into a stranger, more abrasive world. We love that our music makes people dance with complete abandon and feel empowered. It's very uninhibited music, and that's what makes it so fun.

  Alexis Krauss

  Fun, People, Musical

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I have no control, of course, over how I'm marketed. It's a sad thing, though, that so many people perceive literature to be gendered. The idea that some subjects are male and some are female is just preposterous to me. It's reductive and nonsensical, to separate writers and subjects and plots along gender lines. It's meaningless.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  People, Literature, Gender

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• People ask me: "Do I consider myself to be a Latino writer?" "What does it mean to be Latino?" Those are very strange questions to answer , but feminism is easier because it's just an ideology, a way I live my life. And absolutely in the most political sense I try to sit down and write very strong female roles.

  Quiara Alegria Hudes

  Strong, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There were so many different factions and that's I think what my father was taking issue with was the idea of, look, you can't go from male dominance to female dominance and expect anything to be better. We're all shits, ultimately, and we've got to do the best we can together.

  John Buffalo Mailer

  Father, Thinking, Together

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I want to try different genres. I think I'll still be looking at a strong female character in the center, and identity struggle and transformation.

  Celine Sciamma

  Strong, Struggle, Character

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• I feel like every movie has been wish fulfillment. For The Heat, I love Lethal Weapon. I watch it over and over again. I always wanted a friend like that; I always wanted to be the badass taking down the drug dealers. It was basically just writing what I wished I could be. Female friendship is so interesting to me. I often feel like when you make female friends as adults, it's polite. I wish it was less polite and you could be frank and mess around with each other.

  Katie Dippold

  Badass, Writing, Interesting

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• I'm not just a female chef. I'm a woman in a brand new hotel, and that's why I think it's so perfect to be at the Cromwell, in a corner of one of the busiest intersections of the world, with my name in lights. It's different in all those sorts of ways, and I'm hoping I'll be able to carry that through. Because if I can't, it's a step back for women in general. People will say - men will say - "See, that's why it's mostly men".

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Men, Thinking, People

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• Any time you do anything different in this life, it's risky. But I've only done things differently, and it's gotten me quite far. If you want to make a splash, you've got to step out on that ledge and jump. And I could land flat on my face and it would be the biggest nightmare of my life. I'm willing to risk it. I want to help change the way male chefs see females. I want to show them that, yes, we're emotional and, yes, sometimes we make irrational decisions, but we're passionate about what we do, and that passion will propel us to the next level.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Passion, Emotional, Decision

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• Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

  Aeschylus

  Passion, Men, Victory

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• People don't always want to have females as leaders.

  Christina Aguilera

  People, Leader, Want

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• I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy.

  Isabel Allende

  Way, Born, Persons

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• Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is.

  Antonio Banderas

  Strong, Hollywood, Needs

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• I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body.

  Javier Bardem

  Men, Males, Body

  "On the Cover: Javier Bardem" by Michael Paterniti, www.gq.com. September 20, 2012.

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• Why have I been chosen to deliver the message of female intelligence and its divinity to a deaf world of males? I have asked my god that question and She answered, 'Hey, why not you Roseanne?' Indeed, why not each of us?

  Roseanne Barr

  Males, Why Not, Hey

  "12 Crazy Things Presidential Candidate Roseanne Barr Has Said About The United States" by Jordan Teicher, www.businessinsider.com. February 3, 2012.

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