Female Quotes - Page 39

• I love female singer-songwriters!

  Melissa Benoist

  Singers, Singer-songwriters, Female Singers

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

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• Its really irritating. Even people who like my work sometimes come up to me and say, I usually dont like female comedians, but your material is great! It makes the job prospect more daunting. Funny is funny, you know?

  Chelsea Peretti

  Jobs, People, Comedian

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• Being the ideal of a strong woman means utilizing all the things that God gives you. People are always saying to me, 'You're a strong female, so why are you wearing a bikini on the cover of that magazine?' Being a strong woman is misconstrued to be something evil and ugly.

  Kelis

  Strong Women, Mean, People

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

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• I will repeat again that females are the symbols of nonviolence. Another thing I would say is that a female is more compromising. A female can talk with anyone easily.

  Yingluck Shinawatra

  Compromise, Symbols, Repeats

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• Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.

  Yingluck Shinawatra

  Care, Details, Process

  "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. December 9, 2011.

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• When I do all-hands calls - and I do a lot of all-hands calls - and I look out across 50 people, or 5,000 people, I see United States sailors. I do not see male sailors, or female sailors, and I do not think anybody else does, either.

  Ray Mabus

  Thinking, Hands, People

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• In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn
  Colvin, Sarah McLachlan....now enter Maia Sharp.

  Art Garfunkel

  Artist, Tradition, Christine

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• Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Beauty, Faces, Form

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• Female friendships are of rapid growth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Friendship, Growth, Rapids

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5010, Delphi Classics

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• A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Friends, Clever, Men

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• All your female friends are either old or ugly; nay, more ugly than old women usually are. These you lead about in your train, and drag with you to feasts, porticos and theaters. Thus, Fabulla, you seem handsome, thus you seem young.

  Martial

  Ugly, Handsome, Theater

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• Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.

  Jonathan Swift

  Fashion, Velvet, Lexicon

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.1604, Delphi Classics

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• Some philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices, it is of both genders; yet, because wounded vanity and slighted love are the two most powerful excitements to revenge, it has been thought, perhaps, to rage with more violence in the female heart.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sex, Powerful, Revenge

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.107

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• Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Opportunity, Lovers, Impatience

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.

  Honore de Balzac

  Two, Males, Natural

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• One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.

  Honore de Balzac

  Women, Desire, Glory

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• you know a person is having a severe personality crisis if you see a high school class ring on a finger beyond the first semester in college. Male or female. It's a big sign saying nothing has mattered to my life since senior year.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Senior, School, College

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). “Sacred cows-- and other edibles”, William Morrow & Co

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• Virgil has very finely touched upon the female passion for dress and shows, in the character of Camilla; who though she seems to have shaken off all the other weaknesses of her sex, is still described as a woman in this particular.

  Joseph Addison

  Sex, Passion, Character

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.22

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• Commitment is different in males and females. In females it is a desire to get married and raise a family. In males it means not picking up other women while out with one's girlfriend.

  Rita Rudner

  Girlfriend, Mean, Commitment

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• In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

  Charles Lamb

  Dresses, Poverty, Caprice

  Charles Lamb (1839). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund”, p.154

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• For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored by history, and often dismissed and treated as 'gossip' within our own cultures and families, female human beings are more likely to be discouraged from telling our stories and from listening to each other with seriousness.

  Gloria Steinem

  Girl, Gossip, History

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• [On gender-rating by insurance companies:] They say the reason they get to charge more is we have children. I would say having children is a socially useful act. Being female is not a preexisting condition.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Reason, Gender

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• In short, pornography is not about sex. It's about an imbalance of male-female power that allows and even requires sex to be used as a form of aggression. ... But until we finally untangle sexuality and aggression, there will be more pornography and less erotica. There will be little murders in our beds - and very little love.

  Gloria Steinem

  Sex, Littles, Imbalance

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• Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads.

  Thomas Otway

  Sex, Dames, Nimble

  Thomas Otway (1712). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway, in Two Volumes”, p.199

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• I arrived at the conviction that we should, more easily and more thoroughly than we now do or ever have done, understand the nature and the laws of the Cosmos if we would from the beginning recognize its originator and upholder as being of the female sex.

  Isak Dinesen

  God, Sex, Law

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Last Tales”, p.67, Vintage

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