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“The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.”

Knows Men Facts Inspiring Female Majority Generous

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“Irish people give big hellos and very little goodbyes. Unless they're female, and then they spend five hours talking in the doorway to the person that's leaving their house.”

People Giving Littles Persons Bigs House Hours Talking Five Female Leaving Goodbye Doorways

Author:Dylan Moran

“I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.”

Thinking Men Problem Running House Feminism Broken Female Notion Broken Heart Broken Family

Book:Conversations with Toni Morrison

Source: Conversations with Toni Morrison

“I definitely acknowledge that The Matrix and Trinity had an influence on female action-oriented characters in television and in film. I think it's awesome.”

Thinking Character Action Film Influence Television Female Acknowledge Trinity

Author:Carrie-Anne Moss

“We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms.”

Should Wells Long Shows Past Given Company Directors Female Males Data Boards Unfortunate Percentages Constituents

Author:Anne M. Mulcahy

“Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.”

Men Humans Said Human Beings Inspiring Female Males Defined Behave

Book:Nature of the second sex

Source: Nature of the second sex

“An awful lot of female celebrities are very beautiful whereas a lot of male celebrities are not so hot.”

Beautiful Female Hot Males Awful Very Beautiful

Author:Graham Norton

“The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.”

Kind Members Female Court Males Welcome All Kinds Delighted

Author:Sandra Day O'Connor

“You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.”

“If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.”

Ifs Stills Hands Left Civilization Female Grass Huts

Author:Camille Paglia

“There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.”

Men Inspirational Female Hilarious Jack The Ripper Male Female

Author:Camille Paglia

“It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.”

Way Use Would Be Female Programmes Hypocritical

Author:Danica Patrick

“I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk.”

Way Stills Two Mother Three House Grew Conversation Grew Up Adults Female Cat Males Grandmother Buzz Mother Grandmother Female Friends Three Sisters

Author:James Patterson

“I am geared towards communicating on a female level.”

Levels Female Communicate

Author:Guy Pearce

“I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused.”

Ifs Mother Father Figures Directors Projects Female Confused Father Figure

Author:Guy Pearce

“Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America - especially as a female.”

America Sound Female Appreciate 4th Of July Cheesy

Author:Katy Perry

“At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.”

Artist Records Female Block Labels Record Labels Chopping Female Artists

Author:Katy Perry

“I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.”

Lines Issues Female Skins Tragedy Tiny Fats Magazines Obsessed Insecurity Tag One Line

Author:Lake Bell

“Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.”

Love Giving Love Is Inspiring Love You Return Pure Female Willingness Receiving Pure Love Friendliness Giving Love Sweet Valentine Responsiveness Receiving Love Valentines Day Greetings

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“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.”

Men Sometimes Action Difficult Female Action Movie

Author:Monica Bellucci

“I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.”

“Art is to be admired rather than explained. The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not precisely know why I admire a green granite, female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.”

Knows Eye Literature Female Green Corners Monsters Admire Pounds Pregnancy Squares Pregnant Sculptors Jargon Granite

Author:Ezra Pound

“In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.”

Ifs Loses Numbers Female Currents Fallen Seats Labour Trends Polls Cabinets Mps

Author:Lucy Powell

“Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.”

Mind Hard Three Speak Modern Female Sentences Elizabethan Modern English

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.”

People Humans Black Gay Female Liberation Black People Gay People Gay Pride

Author:Richard Pryor

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”

Source: Being Perfect

“The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.”

People Two Marriage Female Males Explanation

Book:Living Out Loud

Source: Living Out Loud

“I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.”

Firsts States President United United States Husband Female Boxes Silly Hats Coats Glimpse Pills Jane Matching Female President

Author:Anna Quindlen

“I have really good female friends. I've never bought the whole men-and-women-can't-be-friends thing. I think that's sort of nonsense.”

Thinking Men Whole Men And Women Female Nonsense Female Friends

Author:Josh Radnor

“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”

Inspirational Motivational Women Change Wealth Money Atheism Positive Female Empowerment Determination Let Me Novelists Empowering Women Empowerment Strong Women Graduation Stopping Bad Ass Life Is Short Empowered Empowering Women Insperational Girl Power Being A Woman Powerful Women Famous Women Empowered Women Women Empowering Women Inspirational Women Successful Women Inspirational Strong Women Great Women Fountainhead Objectivism Women Power Badass Women Being A Strong Woman Inspire Women Strong Women And Love Women In History I Am Strong Business Woman I Am Woman Strong Inspirational Strong Independent Women Women Right Women Strength Being Independent Woman Strong Powerful Women Empowering Love Women Best Inspirational Strong Women Motivation Images Of Strong Women Female Writers Strong Independent Strong Motivational Kickass Women Powerful Inspirational Brave Women Women And Strength Can't Stop Me Fountain Head Your Awesome Smart Thinking Smart Inspirational

Author:Ayn Rand

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

Play Sports Support Player Personality Models Female Athlete Modeling Volleyball Female Athlete Volleyball Player

Author:Gabrielle Reece

“'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing.”

Knows Writing Reason Reality Remember Film Perception Concepts Female Empowerment Deeper Aliens Significance Versus Female Empowerment Eco

Author:Jason Reitman

“And I think a woman should find it a joy to be female because God made both male and female.”

Thinking Should Made Joy Female Males

Author:Little Richard

“There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.”

Littles Beautiful Girl Female Comic

Author:Joan Rivers

“Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.”

Strong Fashion Female Dresses Majority Feminine Just Being Lipstick Chic Wearing A Dress

Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.”

Men Should Art Body Light Beautiful Beauty Female Males Naked Magazines Features Works Of Art Female Body

Author:Richard Roeper

“In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.”

Process Realizing Female Burden Partners Zone Pregnancy Construction Belly Being Pregnant Pregnant Inspirational Inspirational Pregnancy

Book:Don't Make Me Stop this Car!: Adventures in Fatherhood

Source: Don't Make Me Stop this Car!: Adventures in Fatherhood

“Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”

“It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get far. Likewise for helping those in line behind you. I take seriously my role as a mentor to young female filmmakers - I make sure my time is tithed.”

People Ifs Want Persons Matter Helping Young Lines Rooms Behinds Roles Female Filmmaker My Time Mentor Behind You

Author:Melissa Rosenberg

“I'm not saying that 'Twilight' is, you know, some brilliant Oscar-winner, it's not 'Dr. Zhivago.' It's not trying to be. Because it is a female fantasy. I would argue that it's actually a universal fantasy. Which is, the fantasy being to be loved and cherished for exactly who you are.”

Knows Trying Fantasy Female Universal Who You Are Brilliant Arguing Winner Twilight Oscars Drs

Author:Melissa Rosenberg

“Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it. I just thought about girls I knew really, really well and I'd just have conversations with them and tried to relay how they talk about certain things.”

Writing Wells Character Certain Girl Conversation Female Really Happy Female Characters Relays

Author:Eli Roth

“The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.”

Trying Wells Might Acting Fields Singing Female Logic Dancing Comedian Fewer Competitors Singing And Dancing Female Comedian

Author:Rita Rudner

“Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.”

Writing Sometimes Pain Asks Novel Baby Female Compare Novelists Having A Baby

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.”

Men Facts Elements Female My Family

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.”

Knows Three Female My Family Accepted Veils Single Women Three Sisters Muslim Family

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.”

Want Needs Has Beens Character Given Black Written Happenings Female Labels Consideration Latina Caucasian

Author:Zoe Saldana

“Marlene Dumas is one of the two or three most successful female artists alive, if you judge by prices. I've never reviewed her work, because I find nothing in it to get excited about no matter how hard I look.”

Ifs Looks Two Matter Hard Artist Three Successful Alive Judging Female Excited Female Artists

Author:Jerry Saltz

“When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting.”

Matter Artist Opinion Subjects Limits Female Males Criticize Subject Matter Sexist Female Artists

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.”

Source: Woman and the New Race

“I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn't change anything. If it means that women and men, they are equal, then OK, certainly I am a feminist.”

Ifs Men Mean Equal Men And Women Female Males Feminist Stupidity

Author:Marjane Satrapi

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