Female Quotes - Page 23

• As stated before, hypothyroidism may cause premature or delayed puberty. The majority of normal and hypothyroid females begin their cycle at ages 12 or 13. However, a growing number of those with hypothyroidism start their cycle years earlier or begin their periods at age 15 or later. Premature or delayed puberty in males is also becoming more common.

  Mark Starr

  Years, Pms, Numbers

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• There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bond in earth, in sea, in sky. The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls Are their males' subjects and at their controls. Man, more divine, the master of all these, Lord of the wide world and wild wat'ry seas, Indu'd with intellectual sense and souls, Of more pre-eminence than fish and fowls, Are masters to their females, and their lords; Then let your will attend on their accords.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Science, Men

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• The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.

  Anne Sexton

  Mother, Winning, Sea

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• For a male and female to live continuously together is biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.

  Robert Briffault

  Marriage, Together, Males

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• If I had a staff of even one person, or could tolerate a small amphetamine habit, or entertain the possibility of weekly blood transfusions, or had been married to Vera Nabokov, or had a housespouse of even minimal abilities, a literary life would be easier to bring about. (In my mind I see all your male readers rolling their eyes. But your female ones - what is that? Are they nodding in agreement? Are their fists in the air?)

  Lorrie Moore

  Writing, Eye, Air

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• I firmly believe in and support everyone's right to freedom of artistic expression. STEEL MAGNOLIAS is my artistic expression, and it is my right to say that its female characters be portrayed by women. The concept of a play set in a beauty parlor where men portray women is a terrific idea. If that is someone's artistic expression, I encourage them to write their own play as soon as possible.

  Robert Harling

  Believe, Writing, Character

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• The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hate

  MAYA ANGELOU (1969). “I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS”

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• When humans work, they frequently become unaware of their own body, their own senses, are surprised to find that their wrists ache or their backs are sore or their friend has left the building. It's as close to an out-of-body experience as can be achieved short of fifty volts, a circle of warding, a pigeon's claw cut from an albino female of purest white feathers, or a lot of mushrooms.

  Catherine Webb

  Cutting, Mushrooms, Circles

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• A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.

  Aristotle

  Wife, Quality, Slave

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• Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be extinct, all ideality will be extinct; and in its place will reign the duality of lust and luxury as the male and female deities, with money as its priest, fraud, force, and competition its ceremonies, and the human soul its sacrifice. Such a thing can never be.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sweet, Sacrifice, Luxury

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1744, Manonmani Publishers

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• In movement there is balance. In balance there is movement. Yoga is all about balance. Within and Without. Above, Below. Front, Behind. Male, Female. In, Out.

  Mark Whitwell

  Yoga, Balance, Males

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• Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has confessed that until recently, he thought the 16-year-old fellow tween idol [Justin Bieber] was a female. 'I only heard Justin Bieber for the first time two weeks ago. I genuinely thought it was a woman singing. I'd never heard it before. Is it big in England yet?'

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Stars, Two, Years

  "Daniel Radcliffe on Bieber: I thought he was a girl". marquee.blogs.cnn.com. June 24th, 2010.

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• In India the mother is the center of the family and our highest ideal. She is to us the representative of God, as God is the mother of the universe. It was a female sage who first found the unity of God, and laid down this doctrine in one of the first hy mns of the Vedas. Our God is both personal and absolute, the absolute is male, the personal, female. And thus it comes that we now say: 'The first manifestation of God is the hand that rocks the cradle'.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Rocks, Hands

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

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• I considered myself most unfortunate because God had made me inhabit a female body in this world

  Christine de Pizan

  World, Body, Made

  Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books

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• Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Children, Speak English, Males

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.411, A&C Black

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• The disciplinary power that inscribes femininity in the female body is everywhere and it is nowhere; the disciplinarian is everyone and yet no one in particular.

  Sandra Bartky

  Body, Femininity, Particular

  Sandra Lee Bartky (1990). “Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression”, p.74, Psychology Press

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• Females carry the marks, language and nuances of their culture more than the male. Anything that is desired or despised is always placed on the female body.

  Wangechi Mutu

  Males, Culture, Body

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• When you look at biology, look at the natural world, the roles of a male and a female in society, and other animals, the male typically is the dominant role. The female, it’s not antithesis, or it’s not competing, it’s a complementary role. We as people in a smart society have lost the ability to have complementary relationships in nuclear families, and it’s tearing us apart.

  Erick Erickson

  Smart, Animal, People

  "All-Male Fox Panel Freaks Out About Female Breadwinners". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2013.

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• LL Cool J was a rapper-turned-actor, and I also relate to him because he was sort of a ladies' man and had a female fan base, but yet he's a positive dude. You never read about him getting into trouble or going to jail.

  Bow Wow

  Men, Rapper, Jail

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• Female exposure shouldn't be labelled as 'cheap.'

  Lee Joon

  Exposure

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• Pornography is the undiluted essence of anti-female propaganda.

  Susan Brownmiller

  Essence, Propaganda, Pornography

  Susan Brownmiller (2013). “Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape”, p.577, Open Road Media

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• Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.

  Angel Haze

  Rapper, Interesting, Guy

  " Angel Haze: 'Right now, no one can beat me'" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2012.

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• I'm still confounded by how few female directors there are. I don't get it.

  Stacey Snider

  Directors, Stills

  "12 Quotes By 5 Female Filmmakers at Chapman: 'It's Not a Level Playing Field, Get Over It'". Stacey Snider's speech at the 13th Women in Focus conference at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 20, 2012.

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• It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Country, Average, Ordinary

  "Reginald". Book by Hector Hugh Munro, 1904.

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• Vogue began to focus on the body as much as on the clothes, in part because there was little they could dictate with the anarchic styles...In a stunning move, an entire replacement culture was developed by naming a 'problem' where it had scarcely existed before, centering it on the women's natural state, and elevating it to the existential female dilemma...The number of diet-related articles rose 70 percent from 1968 to 1972...The lucrative 'transfer of guilt' was resurrected just in time.

  Naomi Wolf

  Moving, Clothes, Numbers

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