Female Quotes - Page 14

• If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through "the eternal feminine," and if nevertheless we admit, provisionally, that women do exist, then we must face the question: what is a woman?

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Faces, Eternity, Enough

  Simone de Beauvoir (1963). “Nature of the second sex”

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• The primordial model of the family is to be sought in God himself, in the Trinitarian mystery of his life. The divine "We" is the eternal pattern of the human "we", especially of that "we" formed by the man and the woman created in the divine image and likeness... Man is created "from the very beginning" as male and female: the life of all humanity - whether of small communities or of society as a whole - is marked by this primordial duality.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• I must confess that I've never trusted the Web. I've always seen it as a coward's tool. Where does it live? How do you hold it personally responsible? Can you put a distributed network of fiber-optic cable "on notice"? And is it male or female? In other words, can I challenge it to a fight?

  Stephen Colbert

  Responsibility, Fighting, Challenges

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• Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation.... The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Love, Integrity, Sacrifice

  "Our blood". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1976.

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• Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!

  Erica Jong

  Love, Song, Good Life

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings - woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Stars, Women, Philosophical

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• So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.

  Aristotle

  Women, Males, Negative

  Aristotle (1853). “The Politics and Economics of Aristotle”

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• If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Women, Believe, Character

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• Generation by male and female is a law common to animals and plants.

  Herman Boerhaave

  Science, Animal, Law

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• If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a young one from itself. No instance of this worthy of any credit has been observed up to the present at any rate, but one case in the class of fishes makes us hesitate. No male of the so-called erythrinus has ever yet been seen, but females, and specimens full of roe, have been seen. Of this, however, we have as yet no proof worthy of credit.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Class, Males

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1150, Princeton University Press

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• The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed white supremacists... Keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females too, until the social construct known as 'the white race' is destroyed - not 'deconstructed' but destroyed.

  Noel Ignatiev

  Believe, Race, White

  "When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories". Book by Bernestine Singley, harvardmagazine.com. 2002.

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• A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.

  Judith Martin

  Children, Parent, Done

  Judith Martin (1982). “Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior”, Scribner

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• Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement they have only tried to be "men" and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Men, Doctors

  Florence Nightingale, Martha Vicinus, Bea Nergaard (1990). “Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale: Selected Letters”, p.210, Harvard University Press

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• The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to the female of its choice, mating only every third year and then for no more than five days, and so secretly as never to be seen, until, on the sixth day, it appears and goes at once to wash its whole body in the river, unwilling to return to the herd until thus purified. Such good and modest habits are an example to husband and wife.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Husband, Animal, Intelligent

  "Introduction to the Devout Life". Book by Saint Francis de Sales, 1609.

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• In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.

  August Strindberg

  Moving, August, Wife

  August Strindberg (1964). “Plays”

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• The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude.

  Andrea Dworkin

  War, Men, Alive

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• I don't like being under someone elses thumb. I'm very supportive of other female artists, especially those trying to make their own statement... trying to do what they want instead of being someone else's Barbie doll.

  Irene Cara

  Artist, Barbie Dolls, Supportive

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• The female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems.

  Simon Baron-Cohen

  Empathy, Understanding, Brain

  Simon Baron-Cohen (2010). “The Essential Difference: Male and Female Brains and the Truth about Autism (Large Print 16pt)”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• No female - young, old, black or white - could ever play the knight-on-charger with meager experience. If she presented herself as the human embodiment of national unity and world peace, everyone would have fallen down laughing.

  Froma Harrop

  Knights, Play, White

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• I'm actually a hardcore otaku who likes maids more than having three meals a day. And I only read books related to maids. Also, I only visit maid cafes. Of course, I also collect maid figurines. I play games which feature female maids and it turns me on so much. Then I'll wear the maid uniforms and jump in joy. I'll take my leave now.

  Hiro Fujiwara

  Book, Games, Play

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• Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity, we need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need Equality, and we kind of need it now. 'So why do you write these strong female characters?' Because you're still asking that question.

  Joss Whedon

  Strong, Writing, Character

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• The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think it's super sweet and it's very attractive for a female.

  Teresa Palmer

  Sweet, Passion, Writing

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• I would like Martin Scorsese to be interested in a female character once in a while, but I don’t know if I’ll live that long.

  Meryl Streep

  Character, Long, Knows

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• Women hold the power because we have the vaginas. If you're in a heterosexual relationship and you're a female, you win.

  Megan Fox

  Winning, Ifs

  "Megan Fox Has Vagina Power, Self-Loathing" By Katy Hall, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2009.

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• I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are ‘the poor heartbroken girl.’ That’s why I’m so proud of the Fast movies. I feel like Giselle is an empowering woman.

  Gal Gadot

  Girl, Heartbroken, Character

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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