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• I was born black and female.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  African American, Black, Born

  Lorraine Hansberry (2012). “Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?”, p.8, Vintage

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• I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable pleasure, though I sin frightfully against the conventions of the stage. It is a comedy with three female parts, six male, four acts, a landscape (view of the lake), lots of talk on literature, little action and tons of love.

  Anton Chekhov

  Love, Writing, Lakes

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• Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all sure that neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind.

  Robertson Davies

  Beauty, Kindness, Important

  "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks".

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• Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.

  Eddie Condon

  Sound, Jazz, Alcoholics

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• I don't know what I would do in the world without [female friends] for advice, for comfort, for simply knowing that there is someone out there who knows me as I am, and loves me despite and because of it.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mom, Knowing, Advice

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• It was just really, really tough getting anything when you were a female. Basically, I just took advantage of everything I could. But when people are going to flat out tell you they're not going to hire anyone that's female, there's not much you can do about it.

  Shannon Lucid

  People, Tough, Advantage

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• Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female.

  Moss Hart

  Men, Unhappy, Bores

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• Silence is deeply woven into the fabric of female experience.

  Rachel Simmons

  Silence, Woven, Fabric

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• To really love Joan Didion—to have been blown over by things like the smell of jasmine and the packing list she kept by her suitcase—you have to be female.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Smell, Suitcases, Lists

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• In light of the strong correlation between female education and demographic decline, a purely empirical perspective on Malala Yousafzai, the poster girl for global female education, may indicate that the Taliban's attempt to silence her was perfectly rational and scientifically justifiable.

  Theodore Beale

  Girl, Strong, Light

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• Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story that spans three continents. The Book of Negroes recites the pain, misery and liberation of one African woman, Aminata Diallo, who was stolen from her homeland and sold into American slavery. Through Aminata, Hill narrates the terrifying story of slavery and puts at the centre a female experience of the African Diaspora. I wept upon reading this story. The Book of Negroes is courageous, breathtaking, simply brilliant.

  Afua Cooper

  Spiritual, Pain, Book

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• Shaka Zulu had an all-female force of fighters. Women have been part of every resistance movement. Women dressed as men and went to war, went to sea, and participated actively in combat for as long as there have been people.

  Kameron Hurley

  War, Men, Sea

  Kameron Hurley (2016). “The Geek Feminist Revolution”, p.263, Macmillan

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• Certain women because of their female power and seductiveness could bring destruction to a family.

  Margaret Way

  Destruction, Certain, Female Power

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• Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners.

  George du Maurier

  Lovely, Shapes, Danger

  George du Maurier (2015). “Trilby”, p.32, Booklassic

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• I’m a bit of a feminist and I carry a machete! I try to be a strong female. I think it’s important. My mum is my idol in life. She’s a very strong woman. I think it’s important for women to be strong and intelligent and hold their own.

  Kaya Scodelario

  Strong Women, Intelligent, Thinking

  "Kaya Scodelario Talks Bonding with the Cast, Fan Reaction to the Film, the End of SKINS, and More on the Set of THE MAZE RUNNER". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. May 31, 2014.

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• We know from the book of Genesis that God created men and women 'in His image and likeness.'  We know from the first letter of John that 'God is Love.'  Therefore, men and women are made in the image and likeness of Love.  This isn't hard to see.  Look at the design of the male and female bodies. They are made for each other. In fact, neither one makes complete sense apart from the other.

  Jason Evert

  Book, Men, Design

  Jason Evert (2014). “Theology of His Body / Theology of Her Body (2 Books, 1 Volume): Discovering the Beauty and Mystery of Femininity / Discovering the Strength and Mission of Masculinity”, p.47, Ascension Press

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• I'll pit my God against your god any day, I say to the Calvinists. It's not their god I'm praying to.... The God I'm praying to is neither male nor female. My God is the one who exists apart from all of men's agendas, the God who takes you away when there is no possible place you can go.

  Brunonia Barry

  Men, Males, Agendas

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• SNSD is a group of 9 girl female students. We’re pretty one by one as well,but its when we’re all together that we can really shine.

  Jessica Jung

  Girl, Shining, Together

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• You know, right now, they say - I don't know who says this, but somebody told me - there's three male roles to every female role. And I guess I'd work on evening that up. Making great roles for women. It's just such a huge challenge

  Anna Faris

  Challenges, Males, Three

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• I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery path of female delicacy, to walk upon the heroic precipice of feminine perdition!

  Deborah Sampson

  Errors, Done, Delicacy

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• Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Males, Sin, Theology

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.211, Random House

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• There's only room for one dominant female in the McMahon family... and that's me!

  Stephanie McMahon

  Rooms, Dominant

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• That's why real awareness always leads you beyond sex, and celibacy happens on its own accord. Because to be in sex you have either to be identified with the male or identified with the female. A real celibate is one who has gone beyond, who is neither.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Real, Males

  Osho, Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Yoga Rabiya (Ma.), Ananda Vandana (Ma.), Prem Pankaja (Ma.) (1978). “The Discipline of Transcendence: Discourses on the Forty-two Sutras of Buddha”

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• Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Smart, Boys, Ass

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• Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Book, Black

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