F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Female competition is when you are with a guy you like and you look around, see that you're the prettiest girl in the vicinity and feel a huge sense of relief that there's no one to take the attention away from you. (Female competition is a result of women feeling like their greatest sense of self worth , identity and influence comes from their sexual appeal to men. Many women don't even realise they are feeling this way and it's a subconscious thing, but they notice themselves getting jealous when they see other women who they think men would find sexually appealing.)”
Source: Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
“Female directors really do need to support each other. Too many times I've been led to believe that my direct competition was other women, as if there can be only a handful of successful female filmmakers a year. That conversation, that perception, needs to change. Women are the people who have helped me make films I love, and I want to be that kind of strength to other women.”
“Female directors, directors of color are a big thing for me, which are both important voices and potent voices that need to be heard. That's how I want to engage myself as an actor going forward.”
“Female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them a solid education which might enable them, when become mothers, to educate their own daughters, and even to direct the course for sons, should their fathers be.”
Source: The Essential Jefferson
“Female empowerment really is important to me. I'm a big nerd of the books from the 15th Century and 16th Century, when the men had all the power and the women had none of it.”
“Female exposure shouldn't be labelled as 'cheap.'”
“Female forms of exquisite grace and beauty began to mingle in his mental adventures; nor was he long without looking abroad to compare the creatures of his own imagination with the females of actual life.”
Source: Waverley
“Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup.”
“Female friendships are important because they help define us in a particular time and place.”
“Female friendships are of rapid growth.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other belong to themselves.”
“Female genital mutilation predates Islam. Not all Muslims do this, and a few of the peoples who do are not Islamic. But in Somalia, where virtually every girl is excised, the practice is always justified in the name of Islam. Uncircumcised girls will be possessed by devils, fall into vice and perdition, and become whores. Imams never discourage the practice: it keeps girls pure.”
Source: Infidel
“Female genital mutilation targets little girls, baby girls - fragile angels who are helpless, who cannot fight back. It's a crime against a child, a crime against humanity. It's abuse. It's absolutely criminal and we have to stop it.”
“Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.”
“Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to be male. Female heterosexuality is a set of social institutions and practices... Those definitions... are about the oppression and exploitation of women by men.”
“Female, I will stay with you even after my soul has left my body.”
Source: The Protector
“Female is real, and it’s sex, and femininity is unreal, and it’s gender.”
“Female leaders are more oriented toward real and long-lasting results of their policies.”
“Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it.”
“Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it. Women want more light and less heat.”
“Female lobsters urinate into the faces of males to tempt them with a sex pheromone.”
Source: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
“Female masturbation is permissible unconditionally.”
“Female maturity is evident in the onset of menstruation; nothing signals male maturity. When a boy becomes capable of erection, he may or may not yet be able to father a child. The ambiguity of male maturity, together with the lack of a given role that it seems to indicate, is precisely the problem male solidarity is intended to counter.”
Source: From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 1
“Female monsters take things as personally as they really are. They study facts. Even if rejection makes them feel like the girl who's not invited to the party, they have to understand the reasons why.
... Every question, once it's formulated, is a paradigm, contains its own internal truth. We have to stop diverting ourselves with false questions. And I told Warren: I aim to be a female monster too.”
Source: I Love Dick
“Female monstrosity inspires terror because it really can end the world—or our current version of it, anyway. But our world is not the only one, or the best one, and in fact, the more time I spend with monsters, the more I think its destruction is overdue.”
Source: Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
“Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“Female orgasm seems poorly designed as a pair-bonding mechanism, but it is perfectly designed as a discriminatory system that separates the men from the boys.”
Source: The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
“Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.”
“Female Pharaohs didn't have a unique title distinguishing them from male Pharaohs. They were just Pharaohs too. The Pharaoh is my icon because of this fact. A reminder that being a woman doesn't mean you can't commission pyramids, command armies, overthrow enemies and order around powerful warlocks. "Queen" doesn't do it for me. I'm not a Queen; I am a Pharaoh.”
“Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male.”
“Female reproductive life history is linked to cardiovascular, metabolic, inflammatory and endocrine alterations to physiology in ways that have not only short-term but also long-term and, in some cases, permanent effects.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health
“Female roles in comedies are usually quite silly, I think.”
“Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.”
Source: Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted
“Female sexuality is presented in our culture as a male fantasy, which doesn't include the reality of the abuse, the pleasure, the pain, the power, the complexity of women's sexuality.”
“Female solitude is weighted with a particular power in literature.”
Source: A Horse at Night: On Writing
“Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.”
“Female success stories from sporting events like the Olympic Games have played a role in shifting the Indian perception to see the female athlete as a hero and a role model for young Indian girls.”
“Female. That label has never done anything for me except dictate what I can or cannot do. No going anywhere without permission. No showing too much skin. No speaking too loudly or unkindly, or at all, if the men are talking. No living my life without being constantly aware of how pleasing I am to the eye. No future except pushing out son after son for a husband”
Source: Iron Widow
“Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing their Zeal for the Publick, let it not be against those who are perhaps of the same Family, or at least of the same Religion or Nation, but against those who are the open, professed, undoubted Enemies of their Faith, Liberty, and Country.”
Source: The spectator
“Female, I give you fair warning: you are playing with fire" - Tegan to Elise (Midnight Awakening”
“FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“Femaleness is a universal sex defined by self-negation, against which all politics, even feminist politics, rebels. Put more simply: Everyone is female, and everyone hates it.”
Source: Females
“Females, after all, were not just the fairer sex, but the fairly reasonable one. Which was the only reason the race had survived this long.”
Source: Lover Reborn
“Females and boys are the only creatures that propose others for friendship. As for the rest of us, friendship sort of just happens.”
Source: The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
“Females and males watched Rhysand throughout the hall—and the shadowsinger and I made a game of betting on who, exactly, would work up the nerve to invite the High Lord home.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“Females are complicated, wonderful creatures.”
Source: Sentinel of Darkness
“Females are smarter than the males. But you know that, it's like humans. Females use their nose to stay alive. They make sure they have cover. They always remember they're trying to stay alive. Bucks go off by themselves. Bucks get dumb during mating season.”
“Females are such an ethereal creation of God. Just look at my mother.”
“Females avoid conflict. They are afraid of violence. The males, on the other hand, are less averse to strife. But once conflict breaks out, the males are much better at reconciling. In a study done in Finland, children who had quarreled were asked how much longer they intended to be angry at one another. The boys proudly said: "Oh, at least one or two days." The girls said "forever".”
“Females carry the marks, language and nuances of their culture more than the male. Anything that is desired or despised is always placed on the female body.”