“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.” IfsShowsFiveComedyGenerationsFemaleAskingComedianMailFestivalsPitchingAmyStand Up Comedian Author:Wendy Liebman
“I wasn't into fairytales when I was little. I was of the generation of the earlier Disney films where many of the female characters, with the exception of the Maleficent's, were not little girls that I admired... the little princesses. They weren't characters that I identified with. I think that's very different now for my girls and more recent films.” ThinkingLittlesDifferentCharacterFilmGirlGenerationsFemaleExceptionPrincessFairytaleFemale CharactersMy GirlLittle PrincessMaleficentDisney Film Author:Angelina Jolie
“Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform.” OrderSexDifferencesGenerationsCreationPersonalityFemaleMalesConform Author:Margaret Mead
“"Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as "God," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH, mispronounced Jehovah, later still.” IfsMeanStillsFactsSeemsChristianNamesCreativeGenerationsFeminismKingsBattleFemaleAlsConventionsGoddessTranslateTheologianGrammarGenesisJehovahRabbiCreative PowerElohim Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“History has been male and the future is female. Leaning on women as a body and the female archetype, and not just women but men - we're asking men to dig deep and deconstruct their seat of privilege. Because this is an emergency. We're in threat of losing our homes, the future of our future generations, and the biological paradise that we're apart of. It's in the interest of all people that we lean on the feminine archetype in our movement forward.” PeopleMenHas BeensHomeBodyInterestGenerationsMovementLosingFemaleAskingThreatMalesPrivilegeParadiseSeatsFeminineOur FutureEmergenciesFuture GenerationArchetypeDig Deep Author:Antony Hegarty
“One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor, child labor, and scab labor - backed by the lethal force of gun thugs and militia. 'Old money' is often little more than dirty money laundered by several generations of possession.” ChildrenLittlesPoliticalForceGenerationsGunBuiltFemaleLaborPrisonFortuneSlavePossessionDirtyImmigrantsThugMilitiaChild LaborOld MoneyScabsSlave LaborDirty Money Author:Michael Parenti
“What! Did Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] believe that a male and female ounce (and, if so, why not two tigers and lions, etc?) would have produced, in a course of generations, a cat, or a cat a lion? This is Darwinizing with a vengeance.” IfsBelieveTwoCoursesGenerationsFemaleCatMalesEtcWhy NotLionsTigersVengeance Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“I'll tell you...why Wonder Woman worked. Or Bionic Woman. Or any of those [shows] really. It was because it wasn't about brawn...it was about brains. And yes, she happened to be beautiful, she happened to be kind of extraordinary in some way, but she wasn't a guy. And I think that, [now], they...put out a female hero, and all they are doing is changing the costume from a man to a woman...they're not showcasing any of the tremendous dichotomies than women possess in term of softness and toughness, sweetness and grit, inner and outer strength.” ThinkingMenWayKindShowsRealityBeautifulGuyTermCommunityLeadershipBrainWonderHistoryGenerationsHappenedFashionHuman NatureHeroFemaleStrategyExtraordinaryIndividualityIdeologyBe KindSweetnessCostumesGritToughnessSoftnessDichotomyWonder WomanBionics Author:Lynda Carter
“I would love to play Nefertiti or Cleopatra or the Queen of Sheba. We preserve more male history than we do female. We have to preserve [female history]. No more complaining. We have to do it.” PlayCommunityLeadershipJusticeHistoryGenerationsEqualEthicsFemaleStrategyMalesComplainingIdeologyPreservesQueensEqual RightsNefertiti Author:Zoe Saldana
“My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.” FormYoungFictionGenerationsFemaleMy GenerationFemale Writers Author:Erica Jong
“I ended up rooming in a dorm that was basically a solid wall of female scientists. And every Wednesday, we would all watch "Star Trek: Next Generation."” NextStarsWatchesGenerationsWallFemaleScientistNext GenerationWednesdayDormsStar Trek Next Generation Author:Naomi Novik
“Surfers travelled and opened up and changed. It became more mainstream, less of a cult. And it diversified. On any given day in the water now I'll meet three generations of surfers, male and female, everyone sporting a different craft. I started surfing in the 60s and I can tell you it's infinitely more diverse. It might be more crowded but it's also more interesting.” I CanDifferentMightThreeGivenWaterInterestingGenerationsChangedFemaleMalesCraftsMainstreamDiverseCultSurfingCrowdedSurferThree Generations Author:Tim Winton
“The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation.” MenWorldCountryFormLiteratureHalfNovelGenerationsDogStyleFemalePressesPopulationGreat MenBitesArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisThis GenerationFree PressProminenceWorld Literature Author:James Buchan
“The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.” WayWarMotherPayGenerationsDemandEqualMarriedLowsDaughterFemalePaidStructureWorkersEqualityCampaignsEmploymentPostsLegacyNormWorkforcePart TimeWartimeEqual PayMarried Women Author:Linda Grant
“I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.” ThinkingIdeasHateGenerationsPicksFemaleI HateMalesNeighborBeing TrueOrganizedThyselfMy GenerationBenevolentOrganized ReligionLove Thy Neighbor Author:Julia Child