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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

General, Characters, Diverse

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
Angela Carter

Experience, Confidence, Human

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.
Angela Carter

Age, Time, Mind

And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
Warren Farrell

Working, Problems, Means

I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.
Warren Farrell

Women, Sports, Today

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.
Clifford Geertz

General, Feminist, Scholars

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
Iain Banks

Love, Great, Fall

Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.
Monica Bellucci

Men, Movies, Sometimes

Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.
Alexander McCall Smith

Women, Enjoy, Rather

I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come.
Paula Cole

Hope, Future, Artists

The night before I compete, I like to have steak. Meat is especially important for female athletes because it provides them with the nutrients they need to perform at their best.
Sasha Cohen

Best, Important, Night

You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don't even have women in them, so I'm lucky I'm in it at all.
Elle Macpherson

Women, Movies, Lucky

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Care, Poor, Nor

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
Margaret Fuller

Great, Woman, Two

Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through my divorce - I had three children, I was in show business and black. It was, like, impossible.
Diana Ross

Business, Children, Single

My first quote was, I don't want to hurt God's people. Jim Bakker's quote was, I was set up by a female.
Jessica Hahn

God, Hurt, Bakker

Homosexuality is against nature. Sexual expression is permitted only within marriage, between man and woman, male and female. Anything else is an abnormality and is against nature.
Pope Shenouda III

Marriage, Nature, Woman

I just think there are certain men who feel like engaging in a story told from a female point of view is somehow a feminizing experience. And that itself is something that they're almost supposed to not want to engage.
Mike White

Men, Experience, Point

If I have a male protagonist, it's a studio movie, and if it's a female protagonist, it's an indie movie. That's just how it is. It's not about the studios. It's about America and who goes to see movies. Women are interested in men and women, and men aren't interested in the woman's story. They just aren't.
Mike White

Women, Men, Movies

I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
Gabrielle Reece

Player, Model, Athlete

I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.
Jeffrey Eugenides

Women, History, Woman

The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego.
Andrew Cohen

Yourself, Woman, Feeling

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

Life, Time, Smart

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Sex, Mind, Brain

I've never associated myself with other singers, certainly not female singers.
Sade Adu

Singers, Associated

I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts too.
Jessica Brown Findlay

Strong, Interested, Loud

Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members.
St. Vincent

Common, Bands, Members

If screenwriters have to kill off a female character, they love to give her cancer. We've seen so many great actresses go down to the Big C: Ali MacGraw, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Debra Winger, Susan Sarandon.
Geraldine Brooks

Love, Great, Character

Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts. One of these grows rapidly, creating the human body of the individual with all its organs, and dies only with the individual.
Christian Lous Lange

Human, Two, Body

I understand a lot of the female needs. I'm not saying I know all of them all the time though.
Jared Leto

Time, Saying, Understand

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