“For a long time the only time I felt beautiful-in the sense of being complete as a woman, as a human being, and even female-was when I was singing.” HumansLongBeautifulFeltHuman BeingsLong TimeSingingFemaleOnly Time Author:Leontyne Price
“[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.” KnowsFeltFemaleAlternativesMinistersPrimePrime Minister Author:Margaret Thatcher
“[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a little more than fifty years, and I've gotten over my original astonishment.” YearsFirstsLittlesFeltWomenMusicFemaleOriginalsFiftyBostonSymphonyConductorAstonishment Author:Nadia Boulanger
“For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are for the whole society. That's really important. For me, as a female filmmaker, when I was out on the festival circuit on 2006, I felt like such a freaking anomaly - an oddity.” WantImportantWholeStoriesFeltSourceDiversityFemaleStorytellingFilmmakerDiverseFestivalsCircuitsAnomaliesOdditiesDiverse Society Author:Lynn Shelton
“Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For a while there, you were made to feel that, if a poet and female, you could not really be serious about it unless you'd made at least one suicide attempt. So I felt I was running out of time.” IfsFeelsYearsMadeWould BeRunningFeltExampleSeriousPoetFemaleTwentiesSuicideThirtyHelpfulTwenty OneRunning Out Of TimePlath Author:Margaret Atwood
“We talked about trying to create an image that would somehow, to an audience, create the sense of awe, wonder and shock that the troops must have felt that their monarch - and a female monarch - went to the frontline of battle and was prepared to lay down her life. This speech is so well known and has been done in virtually every version of the events of Elizabeth's life.” TryingWellsHas BeensDoneFeltKnownWonderAudienceEventsBattleSpeechFemaleLaysPreparedVersionsAweShockTroopsWell KnownMonarchsFrontline Author:Cate Blanchett
“I have known female whores who spoke very bitterly of their calling. "If they don't like my face, they can put a cushion over it. I know it's not that they're interested in." But to the boys this profession never seemed shameful. It was their daytime occupations for which they felt the need to apologize. In some instances, these were lower class or humdrum or, worst of all, unfeminine. At least whoring was never that.” IfsKnowsNeedsFacesFeltKnownClassBoysWorstCallingFemaleProfessionInstanceSpokesOver ItOccupationApologizingShamefulDaytimeCushionsLower ClassHumdrum Author:Quentin Crisp
“I've never felt stigmatized in my profession, nor have I allowed myself to. I don't feel either male or female, I feel I am just me, and I should be able to do whatever I like.” FeelsShouldAbleFeltFemaleMalesProfession Author:Miranda Richardson
“It was just such a complete shock to turn on the news one day and see someone that you know, someone you have passed in the halls of your high school. It got me thinking, 'Well, what are some novels that are about female sexual psychopaths? I really didn't have many references for that, and I felt like that was a void in transgressive literature that I wanted to fill.'” ThinkingKnowsWellsWantedSchoolTurnsLiteratureFeltNovelOne DayNewsHigh SchoolFemaleShockHallsVoidTurn-onPsychopath Author:Alissa Nutting
“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
“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
“Ultimately, I felt fortunate, because in many ways I did identify with aspects of being gay that were very stereotypical. I was a big theatre kid in high school, I was creative, I was very emotionally sensitive, even hypersensitive. I loved female divas.” WayBigsKidsSchoolFeltCreativeGayHigh SchoolFemaleAspectTheatreFortunateSensitiveBeing Gay Author:Christopher Rice
“I have often felt like I was the only one fighting against female genital mutilation. There is still a huge taboo surrounding the topic, because it involves the most private parts of the female´s body. But whenever I feel like this is too much for me to do, I read e-mails and messages I receive every day from people thanking me for speaking up for them, for giving them a voice. These messages let me know that I am not alone, and that what I do is worthwhile.” PeopleKnowsGivingFeelsStillsBodyFightingFeltVoiceToo MuchHugeMessagesFemaleLet MeWorthwhileMailTopicsNot AloneTabooSpeaking UpMutilationPrivate Parts Author:Waris Dirie
“Creating a portrait of a female point of view in an environment that we've pretty much exclusively understood through a male perspective - "Wall Street," "Wolf of Wall Street," "Arbitrage" - etc. was beyond exciting for me. It felt downright necessary. And I felt really inspired by Alysia Reiner and Sarah Megan Thomas' agenda in telling these types of unique, feminist stories. [Both of them produced and acted in "Equity."]” StoriesFeltViewsEnvironmentStreetsPerspectiveWallTypeCreatingUniqueUnderstoodFemaleExcitingInspiredMalesFeministPoint Of ViewEtcAgendasPortraitsEquityArbitrage Author:Meera Menon
“On the surface, Wonder Boys seemed like such a departure from L.A. Confidential - it's funny, it's contemporary, and so on - and yet at a certain point, I had a feeling that reminded me how I felt when I was shooting L.A. Confidential. I analyzed it for a while, and thought about how emotionally involved I was with the characters. Then I realized that in both movies, there are three main male characters and one female, and all of them are struggling to figure out what they're doing with their lives, independent of each other.” CharacterFeelingsCertainThreeFeltWonderBoysStruggleFiguresInvolvedFemaleIndependentMalesSurfaceI RealizedContemporaryShootingDepartureConfidential Author:Curtis Hanson
“The 19th century Mormons, including some of my ancestors, were not eager to practice plural marriage. They followed the example of Brigham Young, who expressed his profound negative feelings when he first had this principle revealed to him. The Mormons of the 19th century who practiced plural marriage, male and female, did so because they felt it was a duty put upon them by God.” FirstsFeelingsYoungFeltPrinciplesPracticeCenturyExampleDutyNegativeFemaleProfoundMalesIncludingAncestor19th CenturyNegative Feelings Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“I knew that [director/screenwriter] Catalina Aguilar Mastretta had an amazing take on the female psyche and the modern woman and the modern immigrant woman living in the U.S., and I really saw the need for a story told of our daily lives without being a statistic and without just trying to hit a demographic, and I felt that with this one.” NeedsTryingStoriesFeltSawsModernDirectorsFemaleImmigrantsDaily LifeScreenwritersDemographicsModern Woman Author:Karla Souza
“Being a female hard rocker and guitar player, I felt the need to put out a memoir. Almost like a rock 'n' roll women manual for women.” NeedsHardFeltPlayerRocksFemaleGuitarMemoirRock N RollManualsGuitar PlayerRockers Author:Lita Ford
“I exist in the zine/small press community, which has always felt more even keel to me, when it comes to creators of varied gender backgrounds. But I also think that there is something to be said about the fact that even though I am female, I present closer to male in my way of dress and attitude/confidence/outspokeness, so I am treated differently by my male counterparts in a positive way.” ThinkingWaySaidFactsFeltCommunityAttitudeFemaleDressesPressesMalesCreatorGenderBackgroundsTreatedMy WayCounterpartsKeelZines Author:Liz Prince
“I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.” WritingArtistFeltFemaleGenderDrawingOppressed Author:Patti Smith
“We kissed, then, and the ardour of her kiss stole my breath away. I returned her passion with all the fervor I possessed. A lifetime of vows and heart-felt disciplines had prepared me well, for in that kiss I sealed with all my soul the fate before me, embracing a mystery clothed in warm and yielding female flesh. Holding only the moment, with neither thought nor care for the future, I kissed her, and drank deep the strong wine of desire.” WellsHeartSoulMomentsCareDesirePassionStrongFeltFateMysteryDisciplineKissingFemaleBreathsWinePreparedLifetimeWarmFleshMy SoulPossessedVowDrankFervorHeart Felt Author:Stephen R. Lawhead
“For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the year, a violent preamble to a prostrate Sabbath. Piled up passions were exploded on Saturday night, and the effect of a week's monotonous graft in the factory was swilled out of your system in a burst of goodwill. You followed the motto of 'be drunk and be happy,' kept your crafty arms around female waists, and felt the beer going beneficially down into the elastic capacity of your guts.” YearsTwoBigsNightPassionFeltWeekEffectsArmsCapacityFemaleGladViolentDrunkBeerWheelsFiftyGutsHolidayFactoriesSaturdayMottoGoodwillSabbathSaturday NightMonotonousCraftyPreamble Book:Every Day of the Week: An Alan Sillitoe Reader Source: Every Day of the Week: An Alan Sillitoe Reader
“For the record, this isn’t a male/female thing. It’s a people thing. You talk about men being cold...you should see women from my standpoint. We’re talking the Arctic tundra would be warmer. Believe me, you don’t want to know my vantage point on your gender. As a man, if I grabbed your breasts, I’d be arrested. Any idea how many women have felt free to grab my crotch at will? (Acheron)” PeopleIfsKnowsMenWantShouldBelieveIdeasWould BeFeltTalkingRecordsColdFemaleMalesGenderBreastsBelieve In MeArrestedStandpointArcticVantage PointMale Female Book:Devil May Cry Source: Devil May Cry
“V rolled the Aquafina bottle between his palms. "How long have you wanted to ask me the question? About the gay thing." "For a while." "Afraid of what I'd say?" "Nope, because it doesn't matter to me one way or the other. I'm tight with you whether you like males or females or both." V looked into his best friend's eyes and realized… yeah, Butch wasn't going to judge him. They were cool no matter what. With a curse, V rubbed the center of his chest and blinked. He never cried but he felt as if he could at this moment.” IfsWayLongMatterMomentsEyeWantedAsksFeltJudgingGayFemaleNo Matter WhatYeahMalesOne WayAsk MeCurseChestsBottlesCriedPalmsVishousLover Unbound Author:J.R. Ward