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“I've had frank conversations with theaters who say, 'We love your play, but we've already done a play by another black person this year,' or 'I don't think the kind of people you write about are the ones our audience wants to see'... Up and coming young black female writers are still struggling to have their voices heard and have their plays produced.”

People Thinking Want Writing Years Kind Persons Stills Done Play Young Black Voice Audience Struggle Heard Love You Conversation Female Theater Frank Black Person Female Writers

Author:Katori Hall

“Ain't but one kind of blues and that consists of a male and female that's in love.”

Kind Female Males

Author:Son House

“Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant. Genius is not checked by social obstacles: it will overcome.”

Has Beens Stills Social Genius Female Overcoming Males Obstacles Convinced Conspiracy Restriction Milton Pascal

Author:Camille Paglia

“There are no female geniuses because there are no female Jack-the-Rippers.”

Author:Camille Paglia

“The man of genius possesses, like everything else, the complete female in himself; but woman herself is only a part of the Universe, and the part can never be the whole; femaleness can never include genius. This lack of genius on the part of woman is inevitable because woman is not a monad, and cannot reflect the Universe.”

Men Whole Universe He Man Genius Female Inevitable

Book:Sex & Character

Source: Sex & Character

“Every female wanna come up to me and show me how much they're not attracted to me... these minority women... they're the only women I can get cause everyone else is scared of me.”

I Can Shows Causes Female Scared Come Up Minorities Show Me

Author:Tupac Shakur

“When the charge first came up, I hated black women. Then, going to trial, I started seeing the black women that was helping me. It's mostly black female guards. They treat me with human respect.”

Firsts Humans Helping Black Seeing Female Treats Trials Hated Black Women

Author:Tupac Shakur

“I think it's important that we have strong, female characters in movies now, which can really leave an impression on people - especially young people - and that they're not 'sexy' or 'cool'.”

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Author:Saoirse Ronan

“I find that in the science fiction world, you have almost more women fans than male fans and I think it's because there's been such a shortage of strong female characters.”

Thinking World Character Strong Fiction Fans Female Science Fiction Males Shortage Female Characters Strong Female Characters Strong Female

Author:Katee Sackhoff

“From my point of view, humanity is one living being. Male-female - we complement each other in a sacred communion. But once again, respect is the key. Respect is what makes the sacred communion possible.”

Humanity Views Keys Female Sacred Males Point Of View Communion Complement Male Female

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“It's a convention, but in horror movies the female characters usually tend to believe easier in a supernatural event.”

Believe Character Events Easier Horror Female Conventions Female Characters

Author:Fede Alvarez

“I don't really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles.”

Thinking Want Play Roles Female Female Roles

Author:Romola Garai

“Sometime female characters, especially in the genre of something that people consider rom-com, make mistakes in a cute way or they're a mess in a way that's palatable. I like that.”

People Way Character Mistake Female Mess Genre Cute Making Mistakes Female Characters

Author:Greta Gerwig

“In college, it's very easy to maintain your female friendships because you're in such close proximity all the time.”

Easy College Female Proximity Female Friendship

Author:Greta Gerwig

“I love female-driven drama, and those kinds of characters. I really love complex women.”

Kind Character Drama Female Complexes Driven

Author:Anna Silk

“I like seeing women defined by what they do and what they're passionate about rather than the men that they're in love with or associated with. That's always more important to me, as a female.”

Men Important Seeing He Man Female Passionate Defined

Author:Candice Patton

“Bonobos really violate a rule of nature where usually if you're bigger, you're going to be dominant. But here, females are actually smaller. But they're still not dominated by males because they work together.”

Ifs Stills Together Female Bigger Males Working Together Dominant Bonobos

Author:Claudine Andre

“Tolkien was, I believe, writing about his experience in the First and Second World Wars, where he would have spent a lot of time without any female contact. He was part of the fellowship of men who went to war, and I think, really, that's what he's writing about.”

Thinking Men World Writing Firsts Believe War I Believe Female Contact War Of The Worlds Fellowship Second World War

Author:Richard Armitage

“Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.”

War Behinds Female Screens Smoke Slogans Profile Soothing High Profile Waging War

Author:Molly Ivins

“One question on hospital admittance forms really gets me. "Sex: Male or Female?" Do I want to be in a hospital where they can't tell the difference?”

Want Form Sex Differences Female Males Hospitals Admittance

Author:Ronnie Shakes

“Films with female protagonists don't attract many eyeballs. Most of them are perceived as feminist films. If Bollywood starts giving women major roles in entertaining movies, then the audience, too, will open up to the idea of watching commercial films in which the actresses do more than just play the role of the hero's love interest.”

Ifs Giving Ideas Play Film Interest Roles Audience Hero Majors Female Feminist Actresses Entertaining Protagonists Eyeballs Bollywood Female Protagonists

Author:Bipasha Basu

“I'm like the female version of George Clooney in 'Up in the Air.' I have to have an eye mask, and Amore Pacific has this cream face mask that's moisturizing. Moisture is so important in the stuffy, dry air on a plane.”

Important Eye Faces Air Female Versions Planes Dry Mask Cream Pacific Up In The Air Moisture

Author:Nina Dobrev

“We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women's advancement.”

Use Political Feminism Weapons Female Violent Midst Advancement Backlash Female Beauty Male Beauty

Author:Naomi Wolf

“Through the 13th century, paintings of Angels exhibit a predominantly masculine appearance. Over the next 300 years, their images become more delicate, gentle, and feminine, until Angels are shown as androgynous or even distinctly female.”

Years Next Century Painting Angel Female Appearance Gentle Feminine Delicate Masculine Exhibits Androgynous

Author:David Connolly

“Gabriel is a unique archangel in the sense that it is almost certain that she is the only female in the higher echelons.”

Certain Higher Unique Female Gabriel Archangel

Book:Angels A to Z

Source: Angels A to Z

“You gotta have some balls to be a female PM in England”

Female Balls England Pms

Author:Winston Churchill

“The future is now! Soon every American home will integrate their television, phone and computer. You'll be able to visit the Louvre on one channel, or watch female wrestling on another. You can do your shopping at home, or play Mortal Kombat with a friend from Vietnam. There's no end to the possibilities!”

Ends Play Home Able Can Do Watches Possibility Television Computer Female Phones Mortals Wrestling Vietnam Shopping Integrating Louvre Mortal Kombat

Author:Jim Carrey

“I made the mistake early in my career, when I moved to Hollywood, of being attracted to actresses. I used to go out exclusively with actresses and other female impersonators.”

Made Used Mistake Careers Female Hollywood Moved Actresses Impersonators

Book:Heartland

Source: Heartland

“I was also told some years ago that I shouldn't 'waste my time' with female-centric films because the audience was not ready for it.”

Years Film Audience Ready Waste Female Years Ago My Time Not Ready Wasting My Time

Author:Priyanka Chopra

“I see my work as a series of attempts to ruin certain representations and to welcome a female spectator into the audience of men. If this work is considered incorrect, all the better, for my attempts aim to undermine that singular pontificating male voice-over which correctly instructs our pleasures and histories or lack of them.”

Ifs Men Certain Voice Pleasure Audience Female Aim Series Males Welcome Ruins Representation Spectators Voice Over

Book:Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances

Source: Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances

“Guinevere is not the Morgan type, where she's sultry and she knows she has this incredible female energy that she can use and utilize, and she's not necessarily used to having this power over men.”

Knows Men Use Used Energy Type Female Incredibles Guinevere

Author:Tamsin Egerton

“People always ask how there are female priests, but in this world there are.”

People World Asks This World Female Priests

Author:Maggie Q

“I love female heroes too and would love to bring many more to the big screen in the future.”

Bigs Hero Female Screens Big Screen

Author:Kevin Feige

“But, for the role of Sarah Linden, we saw everybody. Everybody wanted this role. Every female actor in town really wanted to play a real woman and be in this drama. It was incredible that all these women were coming in. And then, Mireille [Enos] walked in the door and she was reading the lines that I had written, and I saw her in that field. I was like, "Wow, she's the one."”

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Author:Veena Sud

“There was one female role, which was Emily. When I did the audition, I flubbed up. It was my first audition back from Christmas break, and I flubbed up and was devastated. In the audition room, they were like, "Oh, you did great!," but you never really know. So, I left the audition in tears.”

Knows Firsts Left Rooms Roles Break Tears Female Auditions Emily Devastated Female Roles

Author:Tinsel Korey

“I just wanted to honor who Emily was. She's just a strong woman. Through my journey of playing her, I found a lot of strength, and I think that I've changed, as a female, in the way that I carry myself. To go through something traumatic, like getting your face scarred, it made me analyze vanity a lot. When you have a little pimple and you're like, "Oh, my god, there's an alien on my face!," you feel like it's magnified.”

Thinking Way Feels Littles Made Wanted Faces Found Strong Journey Changed Honor Female Aliens Vanity Your Face Strong Women Emily My Journey Pimples I've Changed

Author:Tinsel Korey

“There are certain aspects of me that can be bad-ass sometimes, but being able to push it to the extreme is something I'd love to play. You don't get those roles, as a female, and especially as an indigenous female. There aren't those roles out there, so I want that. I want women to see a strong, sexy female without showing her body too much.”

Want Sometimes Play Body Able Certain Strong Roles Too Much Female Aspect Extremes Sexy Ass Bad Ass Indigenous I Want A Woman

Author:Tinsel Korey

“I receive more fan mail from the females.”

Fans Female Mail Fan Mail

Author:Nobuo Uematsu

“Statistically in the UK, there are so many fewer female composers than male songwriters and they're marketed in a way that - females are marketed in a way that they're these independent unique artists writing their own stuff, and they're not, because fourteen percent of PRS goes to women.”

Way Writing Artist Stuff Unique Percent Female Independent Males Composer Fewer Songwriters Fourteen

Author:Kate Nash

“Maybe there is a feeling that women get judged more about how they look and how they present themselves visually as opposed to what they are thinking and feeling. Especially as a female performer that happens a lot, and I think that is regressing even more, which I find really sad.”

Thinking Looks Feelings Happens Female Performers Judged Really Sad

Author:Planningtorock

“Sixty-three percent of our university students are female. But you still see violations of women's rights in Iran. A Muslim man can have up to four wives. He can divorce his wife without offering any reason, while it is quite difficult for a woman to get a divorce.”

Men Stills Reason Three Difficult Four Wife Rights Students Percent Female University Divorce Iran Offering Sixty Womens Rights Violation University Students

Author:Shirin Ebadi

“Tell a female she's thin and she's yours for life.”

Book:Professor Romeo

Source: Professor Romeo

“Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.”

Source: Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition, Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam: In Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; from the Year 1772, to 1777: Elucidating the History of that Country, and Describing Its Productions ... with an Account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea. By Captn. J. G. Stedman ... ...

“Being a bigger person, whether you're male or female, in entertainment, it can hurt your chances. Because people look to you to be a so-called superstar. Perfect body, perfect figure, good looking, and smart. And larger people, we have to fit in anywhere we can and the best way we can, so to speak. The way the world looks at you at being perfect, and nobody's perfect.”

People World Way Looks Persons Body Speak Hurt Chance Perfect Figures Fit Smart Female Bigger Males Entertainment Best Way Looking Good Superstar Nobody's Perfect Bigger Person

Author:Bruce Bruce

“When I first got the job, I was told nothing about my character. She's an anthropologist and she's tough, she's a female Indiana Jones. That's what I went into [Lost] knowing.”

Firsts Character Jobs Lost Knowing Tough Female Indiana Anthropologists

Author:Rebecca Mader

“Guys will just go out and do something. Females will talk about it - a lot. I don't care if I break a nail. You have to be aggressive to get the same respect as the guys.”

Ifs Care Guy Break Female Don't Care I Don't Care Aggressive Nails

Author:Mya

“Part of me has always resisted the Western clichéd image of Muslim women, depicting them as nothing more than silent victims. My art, without denying 'repression,' is a testimony to unspoken female power and the continuing protest in Islamic culture.”

“All aspects of photography interest me and I feel for the female body the same curiosity and the same love as for a landscape, a face or anything else which interests me. In any case, the nude is a form of landscape. There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment, on the mood of the model.”

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Author:Jeanloup Sieff

“We "chicks" have munched our popcorn while romantic comedies became just comedies, and then each female protagonist got recast for Mathew McConaughey or Seth Rogan.”

Comedy Female Chicks Protagonists Popcorn Female Protagonists

Author:Emma McLaughlin

“Contrary to popular belief, a good number of transvestites-both male and female-are also heterosexual. Just because they want to get dressed up like the opposite sex does not necessarily mean they want to go to bed with the same sex. Some have successful heterosexual marriages & enjoy the most delightful shopping experiences.”

Source: Ain't nobody's business if you do: the absurdity of consensual crimes in a free society