“I have, my whole life, been healing the girl inside, the part of me that struggles about being a female in the world. That's why I write about the things I write about.” WorldWritingWholeGirlHealingStruggleFemaleWhole Life Author:India.Arie
“When you see that 76 percent of teachers are female, I think you have to acknowledge that there's a cultural bias, and it does date back to this nineteenth century idea that teaching is a form of mothering.” ThinkingDoeIdeasFormTeacherTeachingCenturyPercentFemaleAcknowledgeBiasNineteenth CenturyMothering Author:Dana Goldstein
“As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the great female vocalists, and I am very fond of the late cabaret singer Nancy Lamott.” TasteLateFemaleJazzSingersAll TimeEclecticNancyVocalistCabaretAll Time FavoriteGreat Female Author:Laura Lippman
“One naturally identifies to some extent with an "I" female narrator going through something that you recognize whether you've gone through it or not.” GoneFemaleNarrators Author:Ann Goldstein
“It's a guy thing, playing the guitar. Being a female and trying to go to the same auditions as the guys, it's pretty hard.” TryingHardGuyFemaleGuitarAuditions Author:Orianthi
“I have a lot of guitar heroes I guess, some of them are female and some of them are male. Robert Fripp is one of them, and Marc Ribot, that's another guitar hero.” HeroFemaleMalesGuitarGuitar Hero Author:Annie E. Clark
“I don't even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn't need to be gendered and stratified, that's so boring.” NeedsPlayerFemaleAll ThingsGuitarBoringGuitar PlayerSo Boring Author:Annie E. Clark
“I love stories of female empowerment. I love stories of, "Hey, I'm an ordinary person." "No, you're not!" I love stories about not knowing you have it in you, but when called to task, you rise and you find out who you are.” PersonsStoriesKnowingOrdinaryFemaleEmpowermentTasksWho You AreLove StoryHeyNot KnowingFemale EmpowermentOrdinary Person Author:Joseph McGinty Nichol
“As a young female I think it's important that young people know there's nothing wrong with having fun, nobody is telling us to be square or be boring, but we have to be safe.” PeopleThinkingKnowsImportantYoungFunSafeFemaleBoringHaving FunSquares Author:Rihanna
“I began to think about the extent to which nude and semi-nude female bodies are commonplace in our present day culture and how young girls might be affected. I wondered if, at some point, this bombardment of images could possibly get boring and that concealing - rather than revealing - would awaken sexual desire. I don't think that will ever be the case, of course, but I was intrigued to write a poem in which dressing was just as erotic as undressing.” IfsThinkingWritingBodyMightYoungDesireCultureGirlCoursesCasesFemaleBoringAffectedDressingsEroticRevealingCommonplaceIntriguedPresent DayConcealingFemale BodySexual DesireUndressing Author:Denise Duhamel
“I want men and women to both feel a part in the flourishment of female power. So I want to celebrate that power that women have, that they acquired and are still acquiring all over the world. And it's kind of my way of joining the movement and bringing positive attention to an overgrowing awareness of females everywhere who are breaking the mold.” MenWorldWayWantFeelsKindStillsAttentionAwarenessMovementMen And WomenFemaleCelebrateMy WayWant MeMoldJoiningFemale Power Author:Zella Day
“I am blessed to live and work in [France,] a country where women filmmakers are by and large not unfairly treated. So I wouldn't have much to contribute regarding issues faced as a female director.” CountryIssuesDirectorsFemaleBlessedTreatedFranceFilmmaker Author:Anne Fontaine
“I think that more so, my wonderful skill of dissociation came in very handy. I care very much what other people think. I'm a total pleaser. I want everyone to like me all the time. I feel like people who don't feel that way on some level are lying, but particularly female memoirists. We want to be seen and we want to be forgiven. So that occurred to me very early on.” PeopleThinkingWayWantFeelsCareLyingLevelsWonderfulSkillsFemaleLike MeI CareForgivenDissociationHandyPleasers Author:Melissa Febos
“A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.” MenWorldHas BeensStillsTodayExampleBattleFemalePrejudiceConductorGood ExamplesConductingToday's World Author:Lara St. John
“The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."” FormLiteratureReaderFemaleMemoirGreat Literature Author:Kate Zambreno
“I think the female first-person is still dismissed, demonized, especially if the book does not end on an empowering note, especially if the main character is perceived as unlikeable, or too privileged.” IfsThinkingFirstsPersonsDoeStillsBookEndsCharacterFemaleNotesEmpoweringPrivilegedFirst PersonMain Characters Author:Kate Zambreno
“I just used to love the sound of especially a female vocal like Ella Fitzgerald for example, it's just that empowering self-control that can make a whole room go silent. I fell in love with that sound.” SelfWholeUsedSoundRoomsExampleFemaleSilentEmpoweringSelf ControlVocalUsed To Love Author:Ella Henderson
“I think we've all got a mirror man in our life - male, female, it's someone who love themselves before they can love anyone else.” ThinkingMenOur LivesFemaleMirrorsMalesMale Female Author:Ella Henderson
“Whether consciously or unconsciously, I felt myself drawn to writing a female character who was pretty flawed and not very virtuous or wonderful or attractive in these ways that throughout literary history we've come to expect female characters to be.” WayWritingCharacterFeltWonderfulFemaleAttractiveVirtuousFlawedFemale Characters Author:Leni Zumas
“Scheherazade, of course, was always in the back of my mind, because she's also a storyteller identified as female who tells a lot of anti-female stories. There's a parade in The Arabian Nights of sorceresses, adulteresses, ghouls, sirens, harridans.” MindStoriesNightCoursesFemaleStorytellerParadesOf My MindGhoulsSirensArabianSorceressArabian Nights Author:Marina Warner
“As a male, I thought the female voice was so strong, unique, real and accessible to most females. In some way, shape or form, they felt like they could relate to it, on some level, because they went through some form of unspeakable horror like what Kilgrave did to Jessica [Jones]. That, in itself, is something that most people shy away from, even in shows that are on cable or in movies.” PeopleWayRealShowsFormStrongFeltVoiceLevelsHorrorShapesUniqueFemaleMalesRelateShyCablesUnspeakableJessicaJessica JonesFemale Voice Author:Mike Colter
“Ayahuasca is a brew that's made from the vine, which is the hallucinogenic element. And then there's also this leaf from a bush. And the vine is supposed to be the masculine and the bush is supposed to be the feminine, and this female shaman did a tea drinking ceremony with us, where we drank Wyoosa. And the intention was to go and find pieces of your soul that were missing and bring them back to your body so you could live more fully with yourself and it's called soul retrieval.” MadeSoulBodyPiecesMissingElementsFemaleIntentionDrinkingYour BodySupposed To BeTeaYour SoulFeminineLeafsMasculineCeremonyDrankVinesAyahuascaTea Drinking Author:Larkin Grimm
“I never feel like I am "using" a voice, rather I am listening to a voice and recording it as faithfully as it comes to me and as I can. I think that the female sex is much maligned, even in our supposedly sexually "open" society. It is the site of a woman's pleasure, and the source of (most) children's entry into the world, and an ancient symbol of power and fecundity, and we are directly or indirectly told in modern times that it's dirty, shameful, ugly, odorous, and to be hidden away.” ThinkingWorldFeelsChildrenI CanSexVoicePleasureModernSourceListeningFemaleAncientUglySymbolsDirtySiteShamefulSexuallyEntryModern Times Author:Micheline Aharonian Marcom
“I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.” BelieveHas BeensMembersFemaleMalesAssemblyRobustSexist Author:Boris Johnson
“My interest in women's voices started when I was in the boys' choir and we were singing in opera choruses. That was my first close-up experience with the female soprano voice. I was amazed at how it could be within the same scale but so different in quality.” FirstsDifferentVoiceInterestQualityBoysSingingFemaleScalesOperaAmazedChorusChoirSopranos Author:Alexander Chee
“I feel like a lot of people talk about in rom-coms, there's the female best friend. There's all those archetypes in rom-coms. But even among a movie about man-children hanging out, there is always the one who's often the fat one, often the one with the beard, who is like the man-childest of them all. He's the one that eventually meets the fat girl or the quirky girl of the girl group of friends and really hits it off.” PeopleMenFeelsChildrenGirlGroupsFemaleFatsHanging OutBeardQuirkyArchetypeGroup Of FriendsFat GirlGirl Groups Author:Jon Gabrus
“There's one logical generational difference and that is that young women will have more chances to support a female president than older women. Older women feel it's their last chance, so that's just a factual, obvious difference. But other than that it depends on experience, on individual experience.” FeelsLastsYoungIndividualPresidentDifferencesChanceSupportDependsFemaleObviousLogicalYoung WomenFactualOlder WomenLast ChanceFemale President Author:Gloria Steinem
“They're all qualities wrongly called feminine: attention to detail, patience, empathy. I don't have children, but I was raised as a female to have those qualities because they're perceived as feminine. Until men are raised with those qualities, too, they won't have the full circle of human qualities.” MenHumansChildrenAttentionQualityEmpathyFemaleRaisedDetailsCirclesFeminineHuman QualitiesAttention To DetailFull Circle Author:Gloria Steinem
“My husband [Julius Tennon] and I started a production company. We've already optioned a book and some scripts to do exactly that, to create more complicated, multi-faceted roles for African-Americans, especially African-American females. I think it's important.” ThinkingImportantBookCompanyRolesHusbandFemaleScriptsProductionsComplicatedAfrican AmericanMy HusbandJulius Author:Viola Davis
“A lot of girls will do regular crunches, when that is building muscle in the middle of your stomach on top of - right in the middle area, where you might not want it to be. There's certain types of sit-ups and crunches and moves that kind of build the core set of your muscles inside. There's a different way of looking at exercise and optimizing it for the female body, if that makes sense.” IfsWayWantKindDifferentBodyMightMovingCertainGirlMiddleBuildingTypeExerciseAreasFemaleCoreMake SenseDifferent WaysMusclesStomachFemale BodyCrunch Author:April Rose
“If I had to describe myself to an alien I'd say I was bigger than the average human, enjoy a drink or two with a good meal and have a bigger head than most. I'd also say I'm really handsome - especially if they were a female alien.” IfsHumansTwoEnjoyDrinkFemaleBiggerAverageAliensMealsHandsomeDescribe MyselfGood Meals Author:Dwayne Johnson
“I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and female nudes are in the center of every painting. It's difficult and exciting to draw the nude. Why get so upset about this? It's our duty to break taboos.” IfsLooksArtSchoolDifficultBreakPaintingDutyDrawsFemaleExcitingWesternMalesUpsetFridayTabooTuesdayArt School Author:Peter Greenaway
“There are a lot of white female-led startups that are raising money without a tech founder. At the core of it is value.” ValuesWhiteFemaleCoreFoundersRaising Money Author:Kathryn Finney
“I don't know anything except being female, so I don't know the opposite of it.” KnowsFemaleOpposites Author:Courtney Barnett
“I'm always excited and enthusiastic to have women join the technical side of the industry. Without making ridiculous stereotypes, which this might be, I have had clients - male and female - who said they feel more comfortable working with a woman in the mastering capacity for various reasons.” FeelsSaidReasonMightSidesIndustryComfortableCapacityFemaleMalesVariousExcitedRidiculousClientsStereotypeEnthusiastic Author:Emily Lazar
“To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.” FactsSeemsEyeFemaleTasksMalesHistoricClosingClosing Down Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“I always want a challenge. My whole career has been based on trying to avoid female characters that don't get to do anything. And it's really hard to avoid those.” WantTryingHas BeensHardWholeCharacterChallengesCareersFemaleFemale Characters Author:Geena Davis
“So many female characters are the girlfriend of the person having the adventure. I want to play baseball, I don't want to be the girlfriend of the one [who plays].” WantPersonsPlayCharacterAdventureFemaleBaseballGirlfriendFemale Characters Author:Geena Davis
“It's partly because our culture so hyper-sexualizes females that if you don't measure up to whatever we're forced to think is the standard, then you feel inadequate.” IfsThinkingFeelsCultureStandardsFemaleInadequateHyper Author:Geena Davis
“Because I had some roles that resonated with women, I immediately noticed that there were far more male characters than female characters in what we're showing little kids in the 21st century, which was stunning to me. But I couldn't find anybody else who noticed.” LittlesCharacterKidsRolesCenturyFemaleMales21st CenturyLittle KidStunningFemale Characters Author:Geena Davis
“My whole theory about why I couldn’t find any creators who realized they were leaving out female characters is because they were raised on the same ratio. I just heard someone the other day call it either ‘smurfing’ a movie, which is when there’s one female character, or ‘minioning’ a movie, which is when there’s no female characters.” WholeCharacterHeardTheoryFemaleRaisedLeavingCreatorFemale CharactersRatios Author:Geena Davis
“The ratio of male to female characters in movies has been exactly the same since 1946. So if you've ever had people say, you know, "It's better now, it's all changed, it's all different," it's not, it hasn't. Not yet.” PeopleIfsKnowsHas BeensDifferentCharacterChangedFemaleMalesFemale CharactersRatiosBetter Now Author:Geena Davis
“For a long time, way back in the ’30s and ’40s, there were fabulous female roles. Bette Davis and all those people had incredible, great roles. After World War II, something happened where it was not only "get out of the factories," but "get out of the movies." That's when women's roles started to really [change].” PeopleWorldWayLongWarRolesHappenedLong TimeFemaleIncrediblesWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiFactoriesWorld War IFabulousFemale RolesWomen's Roles Author:Geena Davis
“Any movie you see, if Tom Cruise is in an action movie or whatever it is, The Avengers, there's going to be a kick-ass female character. Usually one. And there's a term for this, but I don't know what it is. But someone's coined a term where there's one female character who's incredibly tough and strong and just as good as the guys at whatever it is they’re doing, and usually wearing black, skin-tight clothes, and [she] has no personality whatsoever, and is not funny.” IfsKnowsCharacterActionGuyStrongBlackTermPersonalityClothesToughFemaleSkinsAssKicksTomsCruiseFemale CharactersAction MovieKick AssAvengersBlack SkinWearing BlackTight Clothes Author:Geena Davis
“I don't think male characters are as one-dimensional as female characters.” ThinkingCharacterFemaleMalesFemale Characters Author:Geena Davis
“I believe we're entering a new era, where dynamic female leaders will have an opportunity to bring greater harmony and peace to the planet.” BelieveOpportunityI BelieveLeaderGreaterPlanetsFemaleHarmonyErasEnteringNew EraFemale Leaders Author:Mary Pope Osborne
“I think there's something inherently different about working with females. I mean, it's just a different way of looking at life, being a woman. But I think we can handle many things at one time and I don't think that's necessarily true for men.” ThinkingMenWayMeanDifferentFemaleHandleDifferent WaysOne TimeBeing A Woman Author:Melanie Griffith
“Las Vegas does have its fair share of males in the business. But the male sex trade is often more underground. There are escort services that specify in gay prostitution, although it may not be advertised for the public, but if you are a male calling for a male, or female calling for a female, you will get what you ask for as long as the money is right.” IfsMayLongDoeAsksSexShareCallingGayFemaleFairsTradeMalesVegasProstitutionLas VegasFair Share Author:Annie Lobert
“I myself have participated in girl-on-girl shows for men that would ask for it, of which were very, very many. It is a popular request, especially at bachelor parties. It also paid a much higher dividend. Also when I worked the escort services, certain male/female clients would call and ask for a male/male team and the escort services that I worked for provided this specific request.” MenShowsCertainGirlAsksPartyTeamHigherFemalePaidMalesClientsRequestBachelorsDividendsMale FemaleBachelor Party Author:Annie Lobert