“Male female slave or free; peaceful or disorderly; maybe you and he will not agree; but you need him to show you new ways to see.” WayNeedsShowsSeeingFemaleAgreeSlaveMalesInvisiblePeacefulVisibleNew WaysMale Female Author:Bruce Cockburn
“I don't think about the gender thing very much. But when I speak at schools, I've had female students say to me afterwards, "I never envisioned myself being a director, since I've never seen women do it." But after seeing me, they can picture themselves directing, so maybe we'll see more female directors.” ThinkingSchoolSpeakSeeingStudentsDirectorsFemaleGender Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“As we've seen the rise of cultural, environmental and educational tourism in adventure travel, we've also seen the rise of female participation. Part of that is due to changes in women's attitudes about their own abilities. As more women participate in such things as fly-fishing, whitewater kayaking and bicycling, we're also seeing concurrent growth in those areas in adventure travel.” GrowthAbilityAttitudeSeeingAdventureAreasFemaleEnvironmentalEducationalDuesFishingParticipationTourismTravel AdventureFly FishingKayaking Author:Christopher Doyle
“I remember attending Toronto Comicon shortly after the release of Captain Marvel and seeing a five-year-old girl who'd come in a handmade Captain Marvel outfit with her hair moussed up - and I totally got the need for this book, for this hero. Someone who looks like her, and acts like her. So, in a way, Captain Marvel helped pave the road to the expanded role of female leads.” WayNeedsYearsLooksBookRememberGirlRolesFiveSeeingHairHeroFemaleReleaseComicFive YearsCaptainsComic BookAttendingLike HerTorontoFive Year OldsHandmade Author:Axel Alonso
“I realize that there are certain hardships that only females must endure, such as childbirth, waiting in lines for public-restroom stalls, and a crippling, psychotic obsession with shoe color. Also, females tend to reach emotional maturity very quickly, so that by age 7 they are no longer capable of seeing the humor in loud inadvertent public blasts of flatulence, whereas males can continue to derive vast enjoyment from this well into their 80s.” WellsAgeCertainWaitingRealizingLinesSeeingEmotionalColorCapableFemaleEndureMalesShoesObsessionLoudMaturityEnjoymentHardship80sBlastChildbirthPsychoticRestroomFlatulenceEmotional MaturityWaiting In Line Author:Dave Barry
“I wrote my first play, Uncommon Women and Others, in the hopes of seeing an all-female curtain call in the basement of the Yale School of Drama. A man in the audience stood up during a post show discussion and announced, “I can't get into this, it's all about girls.” I thought to myself, “Well, I've been getting in to Hamlet and Laurence of Arabia my whole life, so you better start trying.”” MenTryingFirstsWellsI CanPlayWholeShowsSchoolGirlAudienceSeeingDramaFemaleWhole LifePostsDiscussionCurtainsArabiaUncommonBasementsStood UpYaleCurtain Call Author:Wendy Wasserstein
“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
“It's nice to do something about something that scares you rather than just run from it and hope that someone saves you. I like seeing strong female characters and somebody who doesn't run away screaming when scared, but confronts the monsters.” CharacterRunningStrongNiceSeeingFemaleScaredMonstersScareRunning AwayFemale CharactersStrong Female CharactersStrong Female Author:Katie Holmes
“I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.” MindProblemHateSeeingMusicianFemaleConnectionsNo ProblemDon't HateFemale Musicians Author:Ani DiFranco
“When the charge first came up, I hated black women. Then, going to trial, I started seeing the black women that was helping me. It's mostly black female guards. They treat me with human respect.” FirstsHumansHelpingBlackSeeingFemaleTreatsTrialsHatedBlack Women Author:Tupac Shakur
“I like seeing women defined by what they do and what they're passionate about rather than the men that they're in love with or associated with. That's always more important to me, as a female.” MenImportantSeeingHe ManFemalePassionateDefined Author:Candice Patton
“My daughter was a toddler. I had no idea there was anything wrong with kids' media.I started watching little preschool shows with her or G-rated videos or whatever; I couldn't believe what I was seeing, that there seemed to be far more male characters than female characters in what we make for little kids. It was just a shock.” BelieveLittlesIdeasCharacterShowsKidsSeeingMediaDaughterFemaleMalesVideoNo IdeaShockMy DaughterLittle KidFemale CharactersToddlerPreschool Author:Geena Davis
“I looked at [Geena Davis] research and see things like 21 percent of filmmakers are women, only 31 percent of speaking roles in popular films are female - you start seeing it everywhere. It's so much bigger. So you've uncovered this groundbreaking data and research.” FilmRolesSeeingResearchPercentFemaleBiggerDataFilmmakerGroundbreakingPopular Film Author:Emma Watson
“I didn't see many female politicians on TV. I didn't see women in history textbooks, so I did geography, and art and English literature. But I know I must have been affected by not seeing women represented.” KnowsHas BeensArtLiteratureSeeingTvsPoliticianFemaleAffectedGeographyTextbooksEnglish LiteratureWomen In HistoryHistory Textbooks Author:Emma Watson
“For me, I believe that just seeing women be strong and tough is not answering the question of what a female hero looks like. Women have their own set of skills that are worth exploring and seeing on screen.” BelieveLooksStrongI BelieveSeeingHeroSkillsToughFemaleScreensExploring Author:Brie Larson
“Jem seemed to look through her then, as if he were seeing something beyond her, beyond the corridor, beyond the Institute itself. "Whatever you are physically," he said, "male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside." He smiled them, seeming to have come back to himself, slightly embarrassed. "That's what I believe.” IfsBelieveLooksHeartSaidSoulMatterLightStrongI BelieveSeeingHealthyFemaleWeakMalesGlassesIllWarriorEmbarrassedLampsInstituteSeemingCorridorsJem Book:Clockwork Angel Source: Clockwork Angel
“It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously painted old woman he was seeing before him, but the entire "female species," as it was his custom to call women. The individual disappeared, the features were obliterated, whether young or senile, beautiful or ugly - those were mere unimportant variations. Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite.” BeautifulFacesYoungIndividualBehindsSeeingFemaleSacredMereSpeciesUglyMysteriousFeaturesCustomsVariationUnimportantOld WomanAphroditeSenile Author:Nikos Kazantzakis
“I just kinda do what I feel. I never knew what lane I would fill, [or that] I would fill a lane at all. I didn't even really contemplate that far down the road. I just started having fun, and a lot of that came from me seeing Wayne dare to be different, and I started feeling like I can be a multifaceted rapper. I don't have to be a one-dimensional female rapper. Once I put that in perspective, it was like everything just got easier for me, because I no longer wanted to fit in anybody's box... I just wanted to be Nicki.” FeelsI CanDifferentFeelingsWantedFunSeeingPerspectiveFitEasierFemaleBoxesDareHaving FunBeing YourselfRapperContemplatingLanesWayneDown The RoadDare To Be DifferentFemale Rapper Author:Nicki Minaj