Female Quotes - Page 18

• White is associated with purity because the entire spectrum is functioning in unity. White is a healing color. White is appropriate for weddings because the unity of male and female symbolizes the unity of allness.

  Tae Yun Kim

  Wedding, Healing, Color White

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• [H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to stay upright during the final minutes of a desperately close promotion campaign?

  Nick Hornby

  Soccer, Finals, Campaigns

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• Most women in our culture, then, are disordered when it comes to issues of self-worth, self-entitlement, self-nourishment, and comfort with their own bodies; eating disorders, far from being 'bizarre' and anomalous, are utterly continuous with a dominant element of the experience of being female in this culture.

  Susan Bordo

  Self Worth, Issues, Anorexia

  Susan Bordo (2004). “Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body”, p.57, Univ of California Press

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• Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the female mind.

  Michael Patrick King

  Mistake, Gay, Men

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• Life is a rush into the unknown. You can duck down & hope nothing hits you, Or stand as tall as you can, show it your teeth & say: "Dish it up, baby, and don't be stingy with the jalapenos." - must be female ;-)

  Grey Owl

  Life, Baby, Ducks

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• There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.

  Paul the Apostle

  Jesus, Greek, Males

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• I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.

  Ken Follett

  Writing, Character, Thinking

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• I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my friend, you're my wife, you're my girlfriend, you're my co-worker. 'This is your box, and you're not allowed to stray outside of it.'

  Jack White

  Girlfriend, Wife, Ridiculous

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Growing up I wasn’t sure I was female. As I grew further I wanted to be a lesbian but I wasn’t sure I would meet even the most basic membership criteria (though eventually I created a ‘femme dyke’ persona that worked well for over fifteen years). It wasn’t until my early twenties that I was sure of at least one thing: I was an artist. Quite an accomplishment for anyone assigned female at birth in a culture that calls only male artists ‘great’.

  Del LaGrace Volcano

  Growing Up, Artist, Years

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• Male love circuits get an extra kick when stress levels are high. After an intense physical challenge, for instance, males will bond quickly and sexually with the first willing female they lay eyes on.
  Women, by contrast, will rebuff advances or expressions of affection and desire when under stress. The reason may be that the stress hormone cortisol blocks oxytocin's action in the female brain, abruptly shutting off a woman's desire for sex and physical touch.

  Louann Brizendine

  Sex, Stress, Block

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• I have never felt so much good female energy around me. I find that I can't take my eyes off them. I'm 99 percent sure I will leave this movie a lesbian.

  Kristen Bell

  Eye, Energy, Percent

  "Cher-ing the Spotlight: Christina Aguilera Shines as She Films Her First Movie Alongside the Oscar Winning Actress". www.dailymail.co.uk. January 09, 2010.

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• When I grew up I saw females doing certain things, and I thought I had to do that exactly. The female rappers of my day spoke about sex a lot . . . and I thought that to have the success they got, I would have to represent the same thing. When in fact I didn’t have to represent the same thing.

  Nicki Minaj

  Sex, Rapper, Saws

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• I think that people in general, whether they are male or female, who are inhibited by the clichés of what women are or what men are, really don't like themselves. Because personality traits are not necessarily sexual.

  Debbie Harry

  Men, Thinking, People

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• I have dated and have had sex with men and women and have to say that the relationships I have had with certain women have been much more fulfilling, sexually and emotionally, than of those with certain men. I connect with an aura, with energy. And if the person with whom I connect happens to be a female, that's just the way it is. That's what makes my wheels turn.

  Kristanna Loken

  Sex, Men, Energy

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• In the United States, it is now possible for a person eighteen years of age, female as well as male, to graduate from high school, college, or university without ever having cared for, or even held, a baby; without ever having looked after someone who was old, ill, or lonely; or without ever having comforted or assisted another human being who really needed help... No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations, and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Baby, Motivation, School

  "The Ecology of Human Development".

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• I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Character, Males, Doe

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• The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maidens?

  Umberto Eco

  Eye, Errors, Age

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.147, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to be male. Female heterosexuality is a set of social institutions and practices... Those definitions... are about the oppression and exploitation of women by men.

  Marilyn Frye

  Animal, Men, Heterosexuality Is

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• The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.

  Friedrich Engels

  Sex, Men, Class

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Philip Gasper (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.184, Haymarket Books

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• Measure her rights and duties by the unerring standard of moral being… and then the truth will be self-evident, that whatever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do. I recognize no rights but human rights – I know nothing of men’s rights and women’s rights; for in Christ Jesus, there is neither male nor female. It is my solemn conviction, that, until this principle of equality is recognised and embodied in practice, the Church can do nothing effectual for the permanent reformation of the world.

  Angelina Grimke

  Jesus, Men, Rights

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• The female of genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Males, Dependent, Food Supply

  "The Humanness of Women".

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• I have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them for years. But there was one, a beautiful bird, pure white with light grey tips on its wings; that one was different. It was a female. I had only to wish and call her and she would come flying to me. I loved that pigeon as a man loves a women, and she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life.

  Nikola Tesla

  Beautiful, Men, Light

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• Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars

  Clifford Geertz

  Feminist, Anthropology, Scholar

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• In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female…In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness

  Laura Mulvey

  Strong, Impact, Erotic

  Laura Mulvey (1989). “Visual and Other Pleasures”, p.19, Springer

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• As a Goodwill Ambassador for YouthAIDS, I've learned that the face of AIDS is increasingly young and female. By educating young people and empowering them to make the right choices we can stop the spread of HIV/AIDS

  Ashley Judd

  People, Choices, Empowering

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