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“The construction of femininity is a construction, yes, but also it can be twisted and turned around in such a way that doesn't necessarily mean it is pointing to the female body or male body in such a binary fashion. The culture is already there and has always been, but not as equal citizens. I think there is more progress to come.”

Thinking Mean Culture Progress Fashion Equal Female Construction Femininity Pointing Twisted Binary Female Body

Author:Lorna Simpson

“Thomas Jefferson once said, "Women shouldn't wrinkle their pretty little foreheads with politics." Now does that mean he was a sexist, or was he just expressing what most males, and maybe most females, felt at that time? Or are both true?”

Mean Female Sexist

Author:Russell Freedman

“I think that female musicians are constantly fighting an uphill battle in general. Even when I'm not writing heartbreak songs... the fact that songwriting is so difficult and music criticism has become so content driven means that sometimes critics can go for the easy descriptors rather than an in-depth analysis.”

Thinking Writing Mean Sometimes Song Fighting Easy Difficult Battle Musician Female Criticism Critics Driven Songwriting

Author:Marissa Nadler

“I love William Shakespeare. He wrote some of the rawest stories. I mean look at Romeo and Juliet. That's some serious ghetto expletive. You got this guy Romeo from the Bloods who falls for Juliet, a female from the Crips, and everybody in both gangs are against them. So they have to sneak out and they end up dead for nothing. Real tragic stuff.”

Mean Real Guy Fall Serious Female Tragic Gang Ghetto Sneak Juliet

Author:Tupac Shakur

“People ask me: "Do I consider myself to be a Latino writer?" "What does it mean to be Latino?" Those are very strange questions to answer , but feminism is easier because it's just an ideology, a way I live my life. And absolutely in the most political sense I try to sit down and write very strong female roles.”

People Writing Trying Mean Political Strong Feminism Strange Female Ideology Ask Me Very Strong Living My Life Latino I Live My Life Strong Female

Author:Quiara Alegria Hudes

“I think it's significantly easier to be a female writer today than in the early 1800's. That said, it's hard to imagine almost anyone who knows anything about publishing disagreeing with the statement that women writers today are often taken much less seriously than men writers. But it's hard to quantify, and even define, what being taken seriously means.”

Thinking Men Mean Today Taken Imagine Female Publishing

Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“I've had people say very dismissive things about my books, but I also feel like I probably have more readers because I'm a woman. I mean, more readers are women and more people who buy books are women, so I don't feel like it's a total disadvantage to be a female writer.”

People Mean Book Female

Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“Most female CEOs have been more understanding than their male counterparts, of the stress that new mothers experience to 'do it all,' which often means, 'all by themselves.' Why? They've been there. They understand the policies needed to keep women in the workforce.”

Mean Has Beens Mother Understanding Policy Needed Female Stress Males Ceo Workforce Counterparts New Mother

Author:Madeleine M. Kunin

“The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.”

Mean Happiness Romance Love Is Emotional Circumstances Activity Concepts Female True Love Males Manipulation Romantic Love Exploits Romanticism

Book:Sexual Politics

Source: Sexual Politics

“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.”

“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

“f you have been divorced once - male or female, but especially for females - and you’re over 40 you’re actually a commodity. It means you were able to commit once, and you’ll do it again.”

Ifs Mean Has Beens Able Female Males Commit Commodity Divorced

Author:Patti Stanger

“The network told me to get rid of Number One, the woman first lieutenant, and also get rid of 'that Martian fellow'... meaning, of course, Spock. I knew I couldn't keep both, so I gave the stoicism of the female officer to Spock, and married the actress who played Number One. Thank God it wasn't the other way around. I mean Leonard's cute, but...”

Way Firsts Mean Courses Numbers Married Female Fellows Actresses Cute Officers Thank God Stoicism Lieutenants Martians

Author:Gene Roddenberry

“The soil needs the seed and the seed needs the soil. The one only has meaning with the other. It is the same thing with human beings. When male knowledge joins with female transformation, then the great magical union is created, and its name is wisdom. Wisdom means both to know and to transform.”

Knows Needs Humans Mean Names Human Beings Female Transformation Unions Males Seeds Soil

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Saxton smelled really good and had a handshake that was firm. "You've grown up a lot." Blay found himself flushing as he took his hand back. "You're just the same." "Am I?" Those pearl eyes flashed. "Is that good or bad?" "Oh...good. I didn't mean---" "So tell me how you've been. Are you mated to some nice female your parents set you up with?" Blay's laugh was sharp and hard. "God, no. There's no one for me.”

Mean Hard Hands Eye Found Parent Laughing Nice Female Firm Pearls Handshake One For Me Some Nice Flushing

Author:J.R. Ward

“All is summed up in the prayer which a young female human is said to have uttered recently: "O God, make me a normal twentieth-century girl!" Thanks to our labors, this will mean increasingly: "Make me a minx, a moron, and a parasite.”

Humans Mean Said Young Girl Prayer Century Normal Female Labor Thanks Twentieth Century Moron Parasites Minx

Book:The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast

Source: The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast

“Then I get it, what it means. At least, for me. District 12 only has three existing victors to choose from. Two male. One female... I am going back into the arena.”

Mean Two Three Female Males Arena District 12

Book:The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy

Source: The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy

“The Sisters vanished entirely then, and Aunt Harriet was standing over Tessa, her face flushed with fever as it had been during the terrible illness that had killed her. She looked at Tessa with great sadness. "I tried," she said. "I tried to love you. But it isn't easy to love a child that isn't human in the least...." "Not human?" said an unfamiliar female voice. "Well, if she isn't human, Enoch, what is she?" The voice sharpened in impatience. "What do you mean, you don't know? Everyone's something. This girl can't be nothing at all.”

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

“a mother's death also means the loss of the consistent, supportive family system that once supplied her with a secure home base, she then has to develop her self-confidence and self-esteem through alternate means. Without a mother or mother-figure to guide her, a daughter also has to piece together a female self-image of her own.”

Source: Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

“Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.”

Thinking Humans Mean Reality Girl Names Human Beings Limits Female Empowerment Opposites Mere Males Someday Complement

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us. One does does not make choices in freedom. Instead, one conforms in body type and behavior and values to become an object of male sexual desire, which requires an abandonment of a wide-ranging capacity for choice... Men too make choices. When will they choose not to despise us?”

Men World Humans Mean Doe Body Desire Values Hate Choices Objects This World Type Behavior Capacity Female Males Wide Despise Conform Abandonment Love Hate Sexual Desire Body Types

Book:Intercourse

Source: Intercourse

“Among the innumerable Footsteps of Divine Providence to be found in the Works of Nature, there is a very remarkable one to be observed in the exact Balance that is maintained, between the Numbers of Men and Women; for by this means it is provided, that the Species may never fail, nor perish, since every Male may have its Female, and of a proportionable Age.”

Men May Mean Ends Age Found Chance Numbers Failing Effects Divine Balance Men And Women Female Species Males Remarkable Providence Footsteps Genetics Divine Providence

Author:John Arbuthnot

“Aww, whats the problem, gertrude? You mean to tell me that you can't walk into a bar with a $100 bill on your forehead and walk with anything, either male or female?”

Mean Problem Walks Female Bills Males Bars Wrestling Foreheads Gertrude

Author:Roddy Piper

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