Best Female Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia. Until now, women have only been accessories. Now, female protest groups are emerging - not because men came up with the idea, but through their own efforts. That's something new for Russia.”

Men Ideas Effort Groups Female Males Russia Protest Something New Domain Emerging Accessories

Author:Alexei Navalny

“I trained with the FBI in Portland and I also had many conversations with female FBI agents in Los Angeles, as well. That was again something that also came in very handy for Basic, because I'd learned already how to handle a gun and how to behave just physically when you're in a situation, a threat. That was very good to know.”

Knows Wells Situation Conversation Gun Female Threat Very Good Handle Agents Behave Los Angeles Fbi Handy Portland Fbi Agents

Author:Connie Nielsen

“The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.”

Enough Opportunity Given Lines Female Males Bottom Producers Bottom Line Female Writers

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.”

Fall Easy Talking Worry Female Spending Celebrate Vulnerability More Time Traps Gymnast

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.”

Character Interesting Tvs Amount Female Complexes Males Mess Remarkable Sexism Flawed Female Characters

Author:Ellen Pompeo

“Not getting girls is the story of my life. I have always had a bit of a tough time with the ladies. I don't know whether it's that I don't have game or just don't feel comfortable in my own skin, but females pick up on that.”

Knows Feels Stories Girl Games Bits My Own Comfortable Picks Tough Female Skins Tough Times Story Of My Life

Author:Josh Peck

“Scoring high in procreation, got an A studying female anatomy.”

Education Study Female Anatomy Procreation

Author:Alice Cooper

“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.”

Humans Two Body Dies Individual Grows Creating Female Unions Males Cells Eggs Organs Splits Human Body Germs

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“Most female models don't have any muscle mass.”

Mass Models Female Muscles

Author:Andrej Pejic

“What happens to each of my female heroes, certainly, is they find something bigger than themselves that they are honored to serve. It's not giving up your family.”

Giving Happens Hero Giving Up Female Bigger Our Family Honored Not Giving Up

Author:Tamora Pierce

“In the next few years I'd love to play a female version of Doctor Who. I know exactly how I would play her - she would be crafty in a clever kind of way.”

Knows Way Years Kind Play Would Be Next Female Doctors Clever Versions Doctor Who Crafty

Author:Billie Piper

“I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal.”

Want Mind Majors Female Appeals Crossover

Author:Candace Parker

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

Want Stories Strong Female Strong Female

Author:Natalie Portman

“I don't think you can be successful in television without appealing to women. I don't think it's possible. I think that men like women. It doesn't really matter what they do - they love anything. But women don't necessarily like every woman, so I think that's a challenge to get the female audience to not only relate to you but also like you.”

Thinking Men Matter Challenges Audience Successful Television Like You Female Relate Being Successful

Author:Maggie Q

“I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry.”

Has Beens Doors Industry Female Males Accepted Flattered Rockers

Author:Suzi Quatro

“I definitely think that females have a harder time. It's a lot harder to be a girl because you're always in your head. I've heard my brother go and take it out on the football as he says. Whereas girls would rather sit down and over think things.”

Thinking Girl Heard Football Brother Female Harder Down And My Brother

Author:Nikki Reed

“I had both male and female heroes.”

Hero Female Males

Author:Sally Ride

“As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having the race conversation so that we can get women further on. You know, a female president now that we have an African American president. Maybe we can get an Asian female, a gay person?”

Ifs Knows Persons President Race Gay Conversation Female Crosses African American Asian Hurdle American President Hurdling Obstacles Female President

Author:Octavia Spencer

“My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.”

Way Different Play Problem Findings Female Fallen Different Ways Thirty

Author:Barbara Stanwyck

“In Vermont, Governor Madeleine Kunin has given years of service to our state after becoming the state's first female governor in 1985. She is an inspiration to girls throughout Vermont and the country in allowing them to know that the opportunities they have are unlimited.”

Knows Years Firsts Country States Inspiration Girl Opportunity Given Becoming Female Allowing Governors Unlimited Vermont Madeleines Years Of Service

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Just being around the awareness field of the male or female imprinter, the child is imprinted.”

Children Awareness Fields Buddhism Female Males Just Being

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The male or female that the child has the most exposure to in the first four to six years of its life is the primary imprinter of the child.”

Years Firsts Children Life Is Four Awareness Buddhism Six Female Males Primaries Exposure

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to them. That's what I learned about male-female relationships.”

Men Inspire Expectations Female Good Things Males High Expectations Male Female

Author:Neil Strauss

“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.”

Men Reason Character Shows Young Girl Strong Rooms Female Actresses Reason Why Finding Yourself Grey Anatomy Female Characters Strong Female Characters Strong Female Grey's Anatomy

Author:Rachael Taylor

“As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.”

Writing Trying I Can Different Matter Character Wonderful Offers Female Stronger Hats Gray Female Characters Gray Matter

Author:Tate Taylor

“Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a national shame. It is the systematic, widespread, shocking elimination of India's baby girls. Some 50,000 female fetuses are aborted every month in India.”

Country Girl Baby Months Six Female India Shame Ministers Prime Traveled Shocking Prime Minister Six Months Systematic Elimination Baby Girl Fetus

Author:Elizabeth Vargas

“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.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Character Stories Wanted Next Strong Novel Female Decided Female Characters Strong Female Characters Strong Female

Author:Joan D. Vinge

“By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good.”

People Knows Feels Made Girl Boys Female Males Feel Good Dancer Male Female

Author:Jack Wagner

“Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.”

Hard Jobs Female Males Quitting Novelists Day Jobs

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“A female vocal can lift a song.”

Song Female Lifts Vocal

Author:Jessie Ware

“As a female pilot, the sacred rose garden in my heart is the motherland's blue sky.”

Heart Sky My Heart Female Garden Blue Sacred Rose Pilots Blue Sky Rose Garden Motherland Red Rose

Author:Liu Yang

“TV is a much more female-friendly environment.”

Environment Tvs Female Friendly

Author:Julianna Margulies

“There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV.”

Writing Character Levels Tvs Female Deeper Female Characters Sophistication

Author:Vera Farmiga

“Whether there are innately female leadership styles... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.”

Years Wells Littles Has Beens Important Moments Asks Attention Leader Style Female Paid Critical Right Questions Woman Leader Critical Moments Leadership Style

Author:Charlotte Bunch

“Male female slave or free; peaceful or disorderly; maybe you and he will not agree; but you need him to show you new ways to see.”

Way Needs Shows Seeing Female Agree Slave Males Invisible Peaceful Visible New Ways Male Female

Author:Bruce Cockburn

“The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.”

Want Brain Female Harder Hints Women Want

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“For him who is perfect in love and has reached the summit of dispassion there is no difference between his own or another's, or between Christians and unbelievers, or between slave and free, or between male and female. But because he has risen above the tyranny of the passions and has fixed his attention on the single nature of man, he looks on all in the same way and shows the same disposition to all. For in him there is neither Greek nor Jew, male nor female, bond not free, but Christ who 'is all, and in all' (Col. 3:11; cf. Gal. 3:28).”

“I connect with an aura, with energy. And if the person with whom I connect happens to be a female, that's just the way it is.”

Ifs Way Persons Happens Energy Female Auras

Author:Kristanna Loken

“The female format is a beautiful one in which to function. Foolhardy as it may be. I change my image all the time, it's whatever suits me at the moment.”

May Moments Beautiful Female Function Suits Lunch Format Foolhardy

Author:Lydia Lunch

“My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.”

Men Running Roles Cutting Wife Childhood Female Convinced Adolescence Subordinates

Book:In praise of imperfection: my life and work

Source: In praise of imperfection: my life and work

“I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.”

Ifs Shows Five Comedy Generations Female Asking Comedian Mail Festivals Pitching Amy Stand Up Comedian

Author:Wendy Liebman

“Each of my novels features a protagonist undertaking a difficult personal journey. On the way, each of these characters - mostly female - discovers something about herself and at the same time makes an impact on other people's lives.”

People Way Character Difficult Novel Journey Female Impact Features Undertakings Protagonists Personal Journey

Author:Juliet Marillier

“A female piano player is always pretty cool to me.”

Player Female Piano

Author:Chrisette Michele

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

Common Band Members Female

Author:St. Vincent

“King's Quest IV was a much bigger hit than I, II, or III. I do feel that King's Quest IV was a pivotal game in bringing in more female players.”

Feels Games Player Kings Female Bigger Quests Pivotal

Author:Roberta Williams

“Malandrinas' means 'bad girls,' but not bad in a negative way. I wrote it in homage to my female fans.”

Way Mean Girl Fans Negative Female Homage Bad Girl

Author:Jenni Rivera

“Don’t get hung up on the female thing. The art is not about that.”

Art Art Is Female Hung

Author:Reed Morano

“Males shouldnt be jealous. Thats a female trait.”

Female Males Jealous Traits Being Jealous

Author:Jay-Z

“I'm Palestinian, I'm disabled, I'm female and I live in New Jersey.”

Female Palestinian Jersey Disabled New Jersey

Author:Maysoon Zayid

“It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was what came of rebelling against the laws of Nature, Frederick and Pilkington said.”

Said Law Given Animal Common Red Female Hot Laws Of Nature Cannibalism Red Hot Horseshoes

Book:Animal Farm

Source: Animal Farm

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