Female Quotes - Page 7

• I just started asking my friends if they had noticed. None of them - feminists, mothers, daughters - noticed until I pointed it out. Then I decided to bring it up within the industry. I knew a lot of people, so I'd say, "Have you ever noticed how few female characters there are in kids movies?" when I met a director, a producer, whatever. And they said, "Oh, but that's not true anymore."

  Geena Davis

  Mother Daughter, Kids, Character

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• My point was the world is missing female characters. A lot of times there is one female character, maybe even a cool one, maybe even an important one. But where are all the rest?

  Geena Davis

  Character, Missing, Important

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• This is really funny, but we did a study of the occupations of female characters on TV, and there are so many female forensic scientists on TV because of all the CSI shows and Bones and whatever. I don't have to lobby anybody to add more female forensic scientists as role models. There's plenty.In real life, the people going into that field now are something like two-thirds women.

  Geena Davis

  Real, Character, Csi

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• I'm the mother of two daughters, one of whom is going to get possessed. It's really spooky and great. I'm shooting it right now. That's why I'm in Chicago. I wanted to tell you about the other direction that this trying-to-get-more-female-characters thing has taken, which is that I launched my own film festival last year.

  Geena Davis

  Daughter, Mother, Taken

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• It's funny when I look at my life; my primary school was two-thirds male to one-third female. So I started my life that way. I have two brothers. And when I did Harry Potter, the ratio was more often than not, at the very least, one-third female, two-thirds male.

  Emma Watson

  Brother, School, Two

  Interview with Geena Davis, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• I looked at [Geena Davis] research and see things like 21 percent of filmmakers are women, only 31 percent of speaking roles in popular films are female - you start seeing it everywhere. It's so much bigger. So you've uncovered this groundbreaking data and research.

  Emma Watson

  Data, Roles, Research

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I didn't see many female politicians on TV. I didn't see women in history textbooks, so I did geography, and art and English literature. But I know I must have been affected by not seeing women represented.

  Emma Watson

  Art, Textbooks, Literature

  Interview with Geena Davis, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• And it's one more shitty thing to write about somebody, in between getting really, really, really upset at female Ghostbusters and Gamergate, and the things that really matter.

  David Cross

  Writing, Upset, Matter

  "David Cross on why his comedy tour pissed off people right and left". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2016.

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• I've had countless jihadis shut me down straightaway and say, "I'm not allowed to speak to any woman who is not my relative." But among the few I'm able to get through to, I think that being female makes me more approachable, soft, all the stereotypes of what female means.

  Rukmini Maria Callimachi

  Mean, Thinking, Able

  Source: www.politico.com

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• If you have an overwhelming majority of one sex over the other, and clearly in our case at the moment - and it has been like this for a long time - it is male over female, you tend to have group thinking. You tend to have common references, combined with competition, combined in this case with testosterone. I'm not suggesting it's a toxic mix, but I'm saying it needs to be tempered and altered and modified and made better by diversity.

  Christine Lagarde

  Sex, Thinking, Diversity

  "Christine Lagarde on slow growth, inequality and fighting cynicism". Interview with Kevin Carmichael, www.macleans.ca. September 12, 2016.

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• I think I have a male side about me and you have a female side about you. It's a question of repressing or not.

  Christine Lagarde

  Thinking, Males, Sides

  "Christine Lagarde on slow growth, inequality and fighting cynicism". Interview with Kevin Carmichael, www.macleans.ca. September 12, 2016.

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• On the surface, Wonder Boys seemed like such a departure from L.A. Confidential - it's funny, it's contemporary, and so on - and yet at a certain point, I had a feeling that reminded me how I felt when I was shooting L.A. Confidential. I analyzed it for a while, and thought about how emotionally involved I was with the characters. Then I realized that in both movies, there are three main male characters and one female, and all of them are struggling to figure out what they're doing with their lives, independent of each other.

  Curtis Hanson

  Struggle, Character, Independent

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If anything, being a female has afforded me opportunities on YouTube that I necessarily didn't have in doing traditional comedy and auditioning in TV and film, and that whole world.

  Grace Helbig

  Opportunity, Tvs, World

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• With unisex fashion, you know, females were doing it first. You're the reason we have unisex clothing. It's because girls said, "Wait, I can wear jeans, too! I can wear a suit, too."

  will.i.am

  Girl, Fashion, Jeans

  Source: www.elle.com

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• For [people] to be like "So what it's like dealing with female characters who are completely disgusting?" I don't think they are - does that make me weird? I made a very intentional choice to not care about that stuff, and go like "I don't care about it, I'm just gonna tell my truth and see what happens."

  Leslye Headland

  Character, Thinking, People

  "Jason Sudeikis, Alison Brie & Leslye Headland Talk ‘Sleeping With Other People,’ Sex, Indie Films And More". Interview with Ken Guidry, www.indiewire.com. September 17, 2015.

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• I've had people who see all my characters as Native, even if they aren't. It's kind of like assuming all a writer's characters are really female because the writer is a woman. I've learned to let that go.

  Eden Robinson

  Character, People, Kind

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• The standard is the standard and whomever walks in the door at the time I need a person in that position who can do that job with excellence and who understands my vision, if they can fulfill it, they got the job whether they're young, old, black, white, male or female.

  T. D. Jakes

  Jobs, Doors, White

  "T.D. Jakes Talks: Second Chances, Humble Beginnings & Knowing Your Worth". Interview with Zon D’Amour, lasentinel.net. September 21, 2016.

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• We don't have music that talks about sexuality from a female standpoint.

  Demi Lovato

  Sexuality, Standpoint

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• We live in an imbalanced society when it comes to encouraging male sexuality and discouraging female sexuality.

  Demi Lovato

  Males, Sexuality, Discouraging

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Every character that I play, even if it's a homemaker, there is an inherent, innate strength in her - you can find strength in every facet of a female personality. It doesn't just come from the physical strength of a woman.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Character, Play, Personality

  Interview with Matt Mullen, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 26, 2016.

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• I'm more of an 'erotic clown,' it doesn't fall into the female category.

  Roy Haylock

  Fall, Erotic, Clown

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I wanted to keep the complexity of the female experience in the film as much as it is in the book, and the subject of not wanting a child is a very interesting subject, one that's not dealt with very much actually.However that complexity was not serving the story of what became the film [The Girl on the Train].

  Erin Cressida Wilson

  Girl, Children, Book

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• There were only a few seats left in coach and Bob found himself seated next to a young female fan. 'I can't believe I'm sitting next to Bob Dylan!' she screamed.'Pinch yourself,' said Bob."

  Bob Dylan

  Believe, Fans, Sitting

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• It so happens that the major relationships in the novel [The Kite Runner] are between men, dictated not by any sort of prejudice or discomfort with female characters, but rather by the demands of the narrative.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Character, Men, Prejudice

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• I guess my writing through time has focused on a number of dimensions that reflect separately on the meaning and social place of the female body.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Numbers, Body

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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