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• It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.

  Dave Barry

  Baby, Cells, Eggs

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• I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.

  Lake Bell

  Issues, Insecurity, Tragedy

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• Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.

  Monica Bellucci

  Men, Action, Sometimes

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• Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Passion, Soul, Curiosity

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.601, Library of America

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• It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.

  Bjork

  People, Care, Incredibles

  "Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age" by Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2005.

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• Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

  Bjork

  Women, Energy, Males

  "Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age" by Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2005.

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• I don't categorize myself. I don't think I'm perceived as a female act by my audience. My fans include just as many men as women.

  Elayne Boosler

  Men, Thinking, Fans

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• Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes from their bodies, so on a very basic level, they have more to write about.

  Brandon Boyd

  Art, Writing, Perfect

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• Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited to melody. Men have this barky thing - we're domesticated apes with a microphone.

  Brandon Boyd

  Writing, Men, Voice

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• Who do I like? I am a big fan of French and Saunders - not that that they are particularly stand-up I have to say, but I think they have been great for women and they are of themselves just incredibly funny whether they are male or female.

  Jo Brand

  Funny, Thinking, Males

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• If screenwriters have to kill off a female character, they love to give her cancer. We've seen so many great actresses go down to the Big C: Ali MacGraw, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Debra Winger, Susan Sarandon.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Cancer, Character, Giving

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• The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation.

  James Buchan

  Country, Dog, Men

  "Lifting the veil" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2004.

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• I've always wanted to do a female buddy film, the kind the guys get to do.

  Sandra Bullock

  Guy, Kind, Film

  "When Sandra Bullock Met Melissa McCarthy: A Real Hollywood Friendship". Interview with Anne-Marie O'Neill, parade.com. June 8, 2013.

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• If a studio sees that a female can bring in audiences, then they're going to make movies with that person.

  Sandra Bullock

  Audience, Persons, Studios

  "Comic-Con: Sandra Bullock and Director Alfonso Cuarón Talk GRAVITY, the Long Takes, 3D, Pranks on Set, Preparing for the Role, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 23, 2013.

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• There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.

  Sandra Bullock

  Long, Roles, Comedy

  "McCarthy & Bullock talk 'Heat'". Interview with MSN Movies, entertaintastic.com.

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• What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.

  Julie Burchill

  Upset, Culture, Looks

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• 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

  Artist, Listening, Categories

  "How Steve Carell Spent His Summer Vacation". Interview with Amanda Mae Meyncke, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 2, 2013.

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• I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.

  Julia Child

  Hate, Thinking, Ideas

  "Julia Child: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. June 2001.

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• I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Historical, Nonfiction, Fantasy

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• Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Failure, Cigarette Smoke, Light

  "The Pure and the Impure". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1932.

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• The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

  James Connolly

  Slave, Workers, Capitalist

  The Re-conquest of Ireland (1915)

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• People that haven't seen us yet are shocked because they think that Alice Cooper must be a female folksinger. They don't expect the whole thing.

  Alice Cooper

  Thinking, People, Whole

  Interview with Mike Quigley, www.mjq.net. September 1969.

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• Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.

  Simon Cowell

  Dresses, Would Be, Shaving

  "Simon's kind of town" by Craig Berman, www.today.com. January 18, 2006.

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• An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.

  Rachel Cusk

  Epidemics, Eating Disorder, Body

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• Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted.

  Elisha Cuthbert

  Thinking, Deals

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