Female Quotes - Page 24

• The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

  Harriet Martineau

  Thinking, America, Training

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.158

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• Females in our generation morals are just out the window. Materialistic things aren't life. I'd rather walk in the rain with a man who treats me like a queen than to ride in a Benz with a man who treats me like crap.

  Jhene Aiko

  Queens, Rain, Men

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• Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.

  Katherine Dunn

  Athlete, Training, Limits

  "Just as Fierce". www.motherjones.com. November/December 1994.

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• Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancient -- perhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Women, Hunting, Males

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• As Deborah Rhode describes, “When 1,100 Michigan elementary students were asked to describe what life would be like if they were the opposite sex, over 40 percent of the girls saw advantages to being male; they would have better jobs, higher incomes, and more respect. Ninety-five percent of the boys saw no advantage to being female, and a substantial number thought suicide would be preferable.”

  Deborah Rhode

  Girl, Suicide, Sex

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• Let the women play in more feminine clothes like they do in volleyball. They could, for example, have tighter shorts. Female players are pretty, if you excuse me for saying so, and they already have some different rules to men - such as playing with a lighter ball. That decision was taken to create a more female aesthetic, so why not do it in fashion?

  Sepp Blatter

  Soccer, Football, Volleyball

  "Make-up and short shorts improving women's football, says Brazilian official". www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2015.

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• The greatest percentage of poverty is found in female-headed households. Over 70 percent of female-headed households are poor. A large percentage of poor people are children (17 percent); fully 85 percent of black children living in poverty reside in a female-headed household.

  Walter E. Williams

  Children, People, Black

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• Increasingly independent black economic, cultural and political power gave Blacks more freedom to do what came natural to them. Divorced from White influence and culture, they reverted quickly to their genotype - increasingly typical of black societies around the world. Males exhibited exaggerated sexual aggression and promiscuity that led to the dissolution of the Black nuclear family in America. Females reverted to the age-old African model of maternal provisioning of children.

  David Duke

  Children, Independent, America

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• You may need help or information from some nongovernmental organization, and the local person heading that NGO may be some West Coast, liberal-educated, no-leg-shaving, Birkenstock-wearing female uniform-hater. And you gotta deal with her.

  Dick Couch

  Organization, Legs, May

  Dick Couch (2007). “Chosen Soldier: The Making of a Special Forces Warrior”, p.300, Three Rivers Press

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• Of course, we can distinguish between males and females; we can also, if we choose, distinguish between different age categories; but any more advanced distinction comes close to pedantry, probably a result of boredom. A creature that is bored elaborates distinctions and hierarchies. According to Hutchinson and Rawlins, the development of systems of hierarchical dominance within animal societies does not correspond to any practical necessity, nor to any selective advantage; it simply constitutes a means of combating the crushing boredom of life in the heart of nature.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Crush, Heart, Mean

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• As a young woman in politics, it also gives me great pleasure to see additional female cabinet representation here today. You know, these are very high levels of representation for women around the cabinet table and I think that that's something that's very important to me.

  Michelle Rempel

  Thinking, Giving, Important

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• I've always had difficulties with female characters.

  John le Carre

  Character, Literature, Difficulty

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.

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• About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.

  Jane Elliott

  Years, Acting, Males

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• In sex we have the source of man's true connection with the cosmos and of his servile dependence. The categories of sex, male and female, are cosmic categories, not merely anthropological categories.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Sex, Men, Males

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• How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet infuse so much pleasure into life. A lovely child, a handsome youth, a beautiful girl, a heroic man, a maternal woman, a venerable old man, charm us, though strangers, and we cannot say so, or look at them but for a moment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Girl, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.197, David R. Godine Publisher

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• I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.

  Natalia Kills

  Hero, Crowds, Performing

  "On the Rise: The Natalia Kills Experience". Interview with Jon Chattman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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• Spencer was searching for a woman interested in gold, inorganic chemistry, outdoor sex and the music of Bach. In short, he was looking for himself, only female.

  Woody Allen

  Sex, Gold, Chemistry

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• A romance novel focuses exclusively on two people falling in love. It can't be about a woman caring for her aging mother or something like that. It can have that element, but it has to be primarily about the male-female relationship.

  Kristin Hannah

  Mother, Falling In Love, Caring

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• Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sex, Opposites, Clothes

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A female salmon lays three thousand eggs a year - and has yet to receive a Mother's Day card from one of them.

  Joan Rivers

  Mother, Years, Eggs

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• The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against the expectation of female silence.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Expectations, Silence

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.281, Open Road Media

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• All animals are sad after coitus except the female human and the rooster.

  Galen

  Sex, Animal, Roosters

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• Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

  Marya Mannes

  Money, Eye, Desire

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

  Margaret Mead

  Marriage, Men, Civilization

  "Male and Female". Margaret Mead, Ladies' Home Journal, Volume 66 (p. 36), September 1949.

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• Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation.

  Margaret Mead

  Beautiful, Mean, Men

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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