Female Quotes

Basically, all my life I'd been told you can't do that because you're female. So I guess I just didn't pay any attention. I just went ahead and did what I could and then, when the stars aligned, I was ready.
Shannon Lucid

Life, Stars, Attention

I actually had an experience where I thought somebody was breaking into my house. That's got to be the most terrified I've ever been in my life. I don't know if that's saying much. The fear, especially as a female in a house by yourself, was horrible.
Hayden Panettiere

Life, Experience, Fear

I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.
Kathy Acker

Until, Body, Found

I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.
Kristin Hersh

Commune, Considered

I'm ambitious but I'm not particularly competitive. I'll try to get roles, as I think it's healthy to go for things, but... I think there's too much competition between women already. It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses.
Rose Byrne

Women, Important, Try

It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses.
Rose Byrne

Important, Support, Solidarity

If we do no mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?
Carol P. Christ

I have a lot of female fans.
Lita Ford

When the Olympics and World Cups come around, that's when you see the real outpouring of support that there really is for female football.
Hope Solo

Real, Football, Around

Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.
Rachael Taylor

Women, Men, Yourself

Lynda Carter played Wonder Woman and was one of the first female superheroes. It gives me more of an encouragement that we can be strong and can do whatever a guy can do.
Thuy Trang

Strong, Woman, Whatever

I wish that there were more female driven films, female-centric films being made.
Heather Graham

Made, Wish, Films

I hate female men.
Agnes Smedley

There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.
Agnes Smedley

Men, Strong, Sex

Donna Mills came on the show as a female antagonist, about a year before, so now they wanted to have a male antagonist. I was cast as a Senator to shake things up.
William Devane

Before, Wanted, Show

Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.
Bret Easton Ellis

Business, Reason, Male

Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.
Linda Chavez

Used, Natural, Modesty

I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world.
Lara St. John

Age, Thought, After

A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
Victoria Wood

Men, Rely, Generally

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.
Terry Prachett

Mind, Hard, Words

I want to do a little bit of everything. I want to play a good, strong female character.
Shannon Elizabeth

Good, Strong, Character

We're making this as entertainment. But God willing, if this show stays on and people see a woman in that office for a while, I think it will help people become more used to it. It's certainly about time that we had a few female presidents.
Geena Davis

Time, God, Help

So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made.
Geena Davis

Change, Government, Made

As an Independent, she has no party backing... Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she's a woman. It causes even more upheaval in Washington than her being female.
Geena Davis

Woman, Her, Fact

We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do.
Geena Davis

Women, Kids, Half

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, May, Desire

I have always had an abiding interest in that type of female anatomy.
Robert Crumb

Interest, Anatomy, Type

I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.
Ken Follett

Women, Great, Long

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
Eddie Bernice Johnson

Business, Care, Thought

Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
Eddie Bernice Johnson

Business, Happen

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