“Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.” MenReasonCharacterShowsYoungGirlStrongRoomsFemaleActressesReason WhyFinding YourselfGreyAnatomyFemale CharactersStrong Female CharactersStrong FemaleGrey's Anatomy Author:Rachael Taylor
“[On gender-rating by insurance companies:] They say the reason they get to charge more is we have children. I would say having children is a socially useful act. Being female is not a preexisting condition.” ChildrenReasonCompanyConditionsFemaleGenderRatingHaving ChildrenInsurance Companies Author:Gloria Steinem
“Everything has to be understood in opposition to something else. For some dang reason, the ego prefers to make one side better than the other, so we choose. And we decide males are better than females, America is better than Canada, Democrats are better than Republicans. And for most people, once this decision is made, it is amazing the amount of blindness they become capable of. They really don't see what's right in front of them. Once you see this, it's an amazing breakthrough, and that is the starting place for moving away from dualistic thinking.” PeopleThinkingMadeReasonAmericaMovingSidesDecisionFrontsAmountRepublicanEgoCapableUnderstoodFemaleDemocratMalesStartingMade ItCanadaOppositionBlindnessBreakthroughMoving Away Author:Richard Rohr
“If those millions squandered on designing missionaries had been deposited in funds for the support of yourselves, when old age, misfortune, or sickness (from which none are exempt,) overtakes you, or for the distressed of your race, what a heaven of happiness you would have created on earth: ye would now be an ornament to your sex, and ages to come would call you blessed. But it is in vain to try - a priest-ridden female is lost to reason. Why? because she has surrendered her reason to the ... missionaries ... the orthodox; they are the grand deceivers.” IfsTryingReasonAgeEarthLostHeavenSexRaceMillionsSupportAtheismDesignFemaleBlessedPositive AtheismOld AgeVainReason WhySicknessFundPriestsOrthodoxMisfortunesOrnamentsDeceiver Author:Anne Royall
“What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?” MenReasonFactsHouseFemaleHarderMalesServantWages Author:Samuel Johnson
“All you do as a performer is keep doing it. If you keep doing it, then it depends on why you're doing it. If you're doing something for superficial, monumental reasons and if you're doing it for female attention, or if you're doing it for money, it's like being upset. Only way you can get upset is when you expecting something. If you don't get this award or don't get that award, that because you expect something.” IfsWayReasonAttentionDependsFemaleUpsetAwardsPerformersExpectingSuperficialExpecting Something Author:Bernie Mac
“It's not my business to remedy deaths! It's my business to tell stories. Lyra and the other heroines didn't come with placards saying, "Make this a feminist story!" I'm glad people enjoy seeing a female protagonist in a big adventure story, but I didn't do it for political reasons.” PeopleReasonStoriesBigsPoliticalEnjoySeeingAdventureFemaleFeministGladRemedyHeroinesProtagonistsFemale Protagonists Author:Philip Pullman
“I've always written stories from female perspectives. That it's one of the reasons I write, to have that experience.” WritingReasonStoriesWrittenPerspectiveFemale Author:Vestal McIntyre
“Sixty-three percent of our university students are female. But you still see violations of women's rights in Iran. A Muslim man can have up to four wives. He can divorce his wife without offering any reason, while it is quite difficult for a woman to get a divorce.” MenStillsReasonThreeDifficultFourWifeRightsStudentsPercentFemaleUniversityDivorceIranOfferingSixtyWomens RightsViolationUniversity Students Author:Shirin Ebadi
“All aspects of photography interest me and I feel for the female body the same curiosity and the same love as for a landscape, a face or anything else which interests me. In any case, the nude is a form of landscape. There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment, on the mood of the model.” FeelsReasonMomentsBodyFacesFormInterestCasesDependsPhotographyModelsFemaleAspectCuriosityPhotographMoodLandscapeNo ReasonFemale BodySame Love Author:Jeanloup Sieff
“Basically, this industry is mostly run by men, and I think women have a harder time...I've had enough of the "Women in Rock" issues of magazines and all of that. There's no reason why we should have our own separate little genre; that's just ridiculous. Besides, what is the genre? I certainly don't fit into the whole "Lilith" thing (thank God), but I am a female musician. And there are enough other great females in music that don't have to fit into it, either.” ThinkingMenShouldLittlesReasonEnoughWholeRunningIssuesRocksIndustryFitMusicianFemaleShould HaveHarderRidiculousMagazinesGenreReason WhyNo ReasonThank GodHad EnoughLilithGreat FemaleFemale Musicians Author:Princess Superstar
“In the space shuttle program, where we had males and females, I can tell you that nobody was doing that [sex] because there's absolutely no privacy. The only privacy would have been in the air lock, but everybody would know what you were doing. You're not out there doing a spacewalk. There's no reason to be in there.” KnowsHas BeensI CanReasonSexSpaceAirFemaleProgramMalesPrivacyNo ReasonLocksDoing YouSpace ShuttleShuttle Program Author:Mike Mullane
“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
“I think an awful lot of the reasons people put forward for not liking Hillary Clinton play into deep-seated, negative female stereotypes: ambition, secrecy, calculating. I mean, that is Lady Macbeth, a kind of cold woman. I don't think that's Hillary. And I don't think people would judge a man in the same way.” PeopleThinkingMenWayKindMeanReasonPlayJudgingColdAmbitionNegativeFemaleClintonAwfulStereotypeSecrecyOld WomanCalculatingLady Macbeth Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter
“Among mammals, a virgin birth (parthenogenesis) can only produce female offspring, for chromosomal reasons. Messiahs are mammals. Therefore, Jesus was... On the other hand, among turkeys, the chromosomal situation is such that all products of virgin birth are males. So if Jesus was a male, he might also have been.” IfsHas BeensReasonHandsMightJesusSituationAtheismProduceProductsBirthFemaleMalesVirginsTurkeysOffspringMessiahMammalsVirgin Birth Author:Frank Zindler
“With unisex fashion, you know, females were doing it first. You're the reason we have unisex clothing. It's because girls said, "Wait, I can wear jeans, too! I can wear a suit, too."” KnowsFirstsSaidI CanReasonGirlWaitingFashionFemaleSuitsClothingsJeansUnisex Author:will.i.am
“My biggest advice to an official who wants to pursue college or come into the NFL is to make sure you're doing it for the right reasons. If you're coming in just because you want to be the female in the NFL, then I think you're doing it for the wrong reasons. If you're doing it because you want to be the best official, then pursue it.” IfsThinkingWantReasonAdviceCollegeFemalePursueNflOfficialsBeing The BestWrong Reasons Author:Sarah Thomas
“You can take a look at the enrollment at major institutions of higher learning. It's 65% female, 35% male. One of the reasons is, men don't want to go there anymore.But this is a manifestation... Remember our old buddy James Brown addressing men, said that it's time to shape up or ship out. He said we have got to stop this business of making fun of men who "throw like girls."” MenWantLooksSaidReasonRememberGirlFunHigherShapesMajorsFemaleInstitutionsMalesShipsManifestationBrownBuddyHigher LearningEnrollment Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There used to be a joke that women need a reason to have sex, while men only need a place. Does policy reflect that juvenile mindset? Such a requirement baffles some women in the real world: a female member of the US Commission on Civil Rights told me, 'I am still trying to wrap my mind around the idea of any two intimates in the world agreeing as to "why.'” MenWorldNeedsTryingMindDoeStillsTwoIdeasRealReasonUsedSexRightsPolicyMembersJokesFemaleMindsetCivil RightsUsed To BeReal WorldRequirementsWrapsJuvenile Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There's a reason why at most major universities and colleges the female-male enrollment is so out of whack. Thirty-five percent male versus 65% female. It used to be just the exact opposite. There's a reason.” ReasonUsedFiveCollegeMajorsPercentFemaleOppositesMalesUniversityUsed To BeReason WhyThirtyVersusEnrollment Author:Rush Limbaugh
“This is a culture of female display. And the reason it's a culture of female display is that on the Upper East Side women far outnumber men, if you do the sex ratios. I can't say exactly what they are, but you could google it. People have said two to one. So, it's a female display culture because sex ratios are skewed toward men, and they sort of have their choice, even if they're married.... Also, women are economically dependent on men, and so there's that aspect of needing to perform your beauty and your scarcity.” PeopleMenReasonChoicesCultureMarriedFemaleGoogle Author:Wednesday Martin
“Is there a gender gap in the music industry? It is true that there are more professional male music creators than female. For some reason, it's taking a lot longer in music than in literature and the visual arts to reach equilibrium. It was almost acceptable by the 19th century for female writers to be published, yet it's only in the last couple of decades, since about 1980, that historical female composers have really emerged.” ArtReasonLiteratureCoupleFemaleHistoricalGenderComposerMusic Industry19th CenturyEquilibriumVisual Art Author:Barbara Harbach
“The argument that it is difficult to find women is complete BS. Any bank will tell you that the No. 1 employee they lose the most money on is the mid-tier female they bring on when they are 22 who leaves in her mid to late 30s. These are women they spend a ton of money training, and a ton of money attracting and hiring. And then they lose them. And they lose them for many reasons. They're going to other sectors, other industries. So for us in the financial-services world to say we can't find women is ridiculous. They are out there. We've done it here at Anthemis.” WorldReasonDoneDifficultTrainingFemaleArgumentRidiculousEmployeeHiring Author:Amy Nauiokas
“The teabagger thing and the right-wing thing - they pick easy targets, and a female in the entertainment industry is low-hanging fruit. It's very easy to mock and marginalize people in general who are in the entertainment industry, for some reason. But then definitely there's the double standard and the misogyny that goes through it as well.” PeopleReasonEasyFemaleMisogynyDouble Standard Author:Janeane Garofalo
“'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.” KnowsWritingReasonRealityRememberFilmPerceptionConceptsFemaleEmpowermentDeeperAliensSignificanceVersusFemale EmpowermentEco Author:Jason Reitman
“Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.” LifeReasonMotivationalLife IsTurnsHistoryAliveStrengthLife And LivingFemaleEmpowermentCuriosityThis LifeLive LifeMeaning Of LifeEmpoweringWomen EmpowermentStrong WomenGraduationEncouragingEmpowering WomenOne WomanEmpowered WomenWomen Empowering WomenInspirational WomenI Live My LifeInspirational Strong WomenGreat WomenShort LivedBadass WomenLife Well LivedBeing A Strong WomanWill To LiveLife Is Worth LivingI Am WomanOld LifeSmart WomenStrong Independent WomenLife LivingOne Life To LiveReason To LiveLiving Life WellBeing Independent WomanMotivational Life ChangingWhat Is The Meaning Of LifeLive Life Happy InspirationalJust Living LifeImages Of Strong WomenFamous Women InspirationalInspirational HistoryEncouragement For WomenKept Woman Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.” StillsReasonLanguageFemaleHave FaithGrammarDeceptive Book:The Portable Nietzsche Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made.” MindMadeReasonFeelingsStuffKnownWallFemaleIrrationalStoutFemale Mind Book:Laughable Loves Source: Laughable Loves
“Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of youth and beauty" The problem, she said, was that "the taste of men, whatever it might happen to be, has made into a standard for the formation of the female character." Reason and religion teach us, she said, that "we too are primary existences...not the satellites of men.” MenHas BeensMadeSaidReasonCharacterProblemMightHappensExistenceTeachYouthFitTasteStandardsAdvantageFemalePrimariesCharmFormationLegislatureFemale CharactersSatellitesEmma Book:A People's History of the United States Source: A People's History of the United States
“Verily, I say unto you, that the wisdom of man, in his fallen state, knoweth not the purposes and the privileges of my hold priesthood, but ye shall know when ye receive a fullness by reason of the anointing: For it is my will, that in time, ye should take unto you wives of the Lamanites and Nephites, that their posterity may become white, delightsome and just, for even now their females are more virtuous then the gentiles.” KnowsMenShouldMayStatesReasonPurposeWhiteWifeFemalePrivilegeFallenNativeVirtuousNative AmericanFullnessPosterityPriesthoodPolygamyGentilesAnointing Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.