Female Quotes - Page 16

• I'm more proud of my upper body. Let's just say I'm a typical female in that way.

  Erika Christensen

  Typical, Body, Proud

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't know who came up with this push present idea, but I think it's probably a female.

  Josh Duhamel

  Thinking, Ideas, Knows

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• God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.

  Olympia Dukakis

  Thinking, Energy, Praying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have no prejudice against male or female.

  John Lone

  Glowing, Males, Prejudice

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

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• When you get a little older, you'll see how easy it is to become lured by the female of the species.

  Adam West

  Littles, Easy, Species

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• I would love to have seen a male-female relationship that had nothing to do with falling in love, I'd love to prove, even on TV - even if it's not true! - that men and women can be friends without any kind of involvement.

  Nana Visitor

  Falling In Love, Men, Tvs

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• Honestly, I have yet to encounter a really bad working experience. Sets are really my favorite places to be because of the many varied and interesting people you get to meet, interact and collaborate with. And I have always developed strong bonds with female costars. No cattiness yet!

  Larisa Oleynik

  Strong, People, Interesting

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• I believe that I am male and I am female.

  Joni Mitchell

  Believe, Males, I Believe

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• It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively with the moment-to-moment reality of emotions. If this is true, literature's loss is science fiction's gain, for Out of Bounds, Judith Merril's collection of short stories, is a warm and colorful rendering of the minutiae of the future.

  Alfred Bester

  Writing, Loss, Reality

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• I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Men, Space, Comfort

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• The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth

  Cherrie Moraga

  Earth, Body, Brown

  Cherríe Moraga, Irma Mayorga (2001). “The Hungry Woman”

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• My mother always told me,”hide your face- people are looking at you”. I would reply,”It does not matter; I am also looking at them.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Life, Mother, Work

  Malala Yousafzai (2013). “I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come

  Paula Cole

  Believe, Artist, Paving

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• There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s.

  Siouxsie Sioux

  Strong, Looks, Gone

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• I do think that being the second [female Supreme Court Justice] is wonderful, because it is a sign that being a woman in a place of importance is no longer extraordinary.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Women, Thinking, Justice

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• Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that women ought to be subjected because she has always been so.... It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity.... It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Kings, Women, Pride

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• 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

  Sports, Men, Judging

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 01, 2010

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• Although I entertain great respect and regard for the female sex I consider the qualifications of the ladies to be already sufficiently charming without adding to their influence in society by conferring on them the right to vote for members of the legislature.

  James Francis

  Sex, Women, Vote

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• But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger?

  John Milton

  Sex, Gay, Wind

  John Milton (1832). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.34

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• What female heart can gold despise? What cat 's averse to fish?

  Thomas Gray

  Heart, Cat, Gold

  1747 Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes, l.23-4.

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• Tonight I am ugly. I have lost all faith in my ability to attract males, and in the female animal that is a rather pathetic malady . . . I don't care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual. What is it that makes one attract others?

  Sylvia Plath

  Animal, Frustration, Feelings

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.16, Anchor

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• I'm an Air Force officer first, a pilot second and then Nicole. The female part is last. . . . My job is to be the best right wingman that I can be.

  Nicole Malachowski

  Jobs, Women, Air

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• Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and long, life and death? Can you let go of all these dualities and embrace the Tao without skepticism or panic? If so, you can reach the heart of the Integral Oneness.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Heart, Self

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• I sorrowfully acknowledge that seven years ago.... I was wickedly manipulated by treacherous former friends and colleagues who victimized me with the aid of a female confederate. They conspired to betray me into a sexual encounter at a time of great stress in my marital life.... I was set up as part of a scheme to co-opt me and obtain some advantage for themselves over me in connection with their hope for position in the ministry.

  Jim Bakker

  Stress, Years, Scary

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• The leading distinction in magnets is the sex, male and female, and the next great difference in them is the colour. Those of Magnesia, bordering on Macedonia, are of a reddish black; those of Breotia are more red than black; and the kind that is found in Troas is black, of the female sex, and consequently destitute of attractive power.

  Pliny the Elder

  Sex, Science, Black

  "The Natural History of Pliny".

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