I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man.
Fanny Kemble

I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
Natalie Portman

I think female drummers are great. I think there should more of them.
Sean Kinney

I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff.
Jessica Simpson

I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.
Ang Lee

I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage.
Bede Griffiths

I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.
Tara Strong

I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life.
Sara Paretsky

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

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
Edward Gibbon

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

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.
Lydia M. Child

I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
Queen Latifah

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.
Joan D. Vinge

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

I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.
Anna Quindlen

I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female.
Shirley Manson

I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.
Cathy Guisewite

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

I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.
Richard Pryor