Best female & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.”

Humans Self Issues Awareness Self Esteem Female Self Awareness Esteem

“You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous and self-indulgent, like the relationships between women when there are no men around. They make each other presents, and they have little feasts, and nobody punishes anyone else. This is the female way of going along when there are no men about or when men are not in the ascendant.”

Knows Men Way Littles Self Use Literature Easy Female Kingdoms Generous Imaginary Jargon Self Indulgent

Book:Putting questions differently: interviews with Doris Lessing, 1964-1994

Source: Putting questions differently: interviews with Doris Lessing, 1964-1994

“I can't imagine where I'd be without the opportunities provided to me in sports. Sports taught me that gender isn't an issue; in fact, when people talk about me being the first female governor, I'm a little absent from that discussion, because I've never thought of gender as an issue. In sports, you learn self-discipline, healthy competition, to be gracious in victory and defeat, and the importance of being part of a team and understanding what part you play on that team. You all work together to reach a goal, and I think all of those factors come into play in my role as governor.”

“A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status”

Persons Self Female Males Destroying Geek Abiding Obsessive

Book:Lucky Wander Boy

Source: Lucky Wander Boy

“... the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. ... The era may witness the first female engineer, motor truck chauffeur, radio broadcaster, head of an aviation school, or federal prohibition officer, but it has not produced the first thinking, creative, and writing woman by any means.”

Source: Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard

“In nature, creatures never ended the lives of others except to survive. To women, abortion was self-defense and preservation of the species. Abortion was not a fancy borne out of the female mind. Abortion was instinct beyond ideas. Abortion was fear (the cat that devours its litter when a predator nears).”

Mind Ideas Self Creatures Female Cat Instinct Species Defense Fancy Abortion Preservation Self Defense Predator Lives Of Others Female Mind

Book:Sapogonia: (an Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter)

Source: Sapogonia: (an Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter)

“Some feminist critics debate whether we take our meaning and sense of self from language and in that process become phallocentric ourselves, or if there is a use of language that is, or can be, feminine. Some, like myself, think that language is itself neither male nor female; it is creatively expansive enough to be of use to those who have the wit and art to wrest from it their own significance. Even the dread patriarchs have not found a way to 'own' language any more than they have found a way to 'own' earth (though many seem to believe that both are possible).”

Source: Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons

“If female liberation is to happen, if the reservoir of real female love is to be tapped, this sterile self-deception must be counteracted. The only literary form which could outsell romantic trash on the female market is hard-core pornography.”

Ifs Real Self Hard Happens Form Love Is Female Core Deception Liberation Pornography Trash Self Deception Reservoirs Hard Core

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“Charity is a cop-out so traditionally female in its apparent self-effacement that there seems resonant comfort in it. We're no longer supposed to serve the imaginations of men who have dominated us. We are to give up ourselves instead to those whose suffering is greater than our own. Looking down is just as distorting as looking up and as dangerous in perpetuating hierarchies.”

Men Giving Self Seems Suffering Imagination Greater Dangerous Comfort Giving Up Female Charity Cop Hierarchy Looking Down Perpetuating

Book:A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays

Source: A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays

“My greatest fear when we were doing "Body Heat" was that I wouldn't be sexy. I didn't have a self-image of myself as this alluring, powerful, sexual female.”

Self Body Powerful Female Sexy Heat Greatest Fear Alluring Body Heat

Author:Kathleen Turner

“If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not avail. Man's will, like woman's, is stronger than the affection, and, once subjugated by vice, all eternal influences will be futile.”

Ifs Men Self Universe Influence Eternal Female Stronger Affection Vices Self Respect Disgusting Innate Drunkenness Habitual Intoxication

Book:Beulah

Source: Beulah

“Since male and female incarnations are equally necessary for self-knowledge, it is not right to look upon one as being more important than the other.”

Looks Important Self Female Males Look Up Self Knowledge Incarnation

Book:Meher Baba on the Problem of Sex & the Sanctity of Married Life: With a Warning on the Means of Birth Control

Source: Meher Baba on the Problem of Sex & the Sanctity of Married Life: With a Warning on the Means of Birth Control

“In order for me to engage in a revolutionary struggle for collective Black self-determination, I have to engage feminism because that becomes the vehicle by which I project myself as a female into the heart of the struggle, but the heart of the struggle does not begin with feminism. It begins with an understanding of domination and with a critique of domination in all its forms.”

Heart Doe Self Form Order Understanding Black Struggle Feminism Projects Female Determination Revolutionary Collectives Self Determination Vehicle Domination Critique

Author:Bell Hooks

“I am really inspired by strong, badass, female characters. I would start with a revenge film, then ease into stories of badass everyday woman who make a difference in their own life for the better of people and environment around them. Stories of self realization.”

People Self Character Stories Film Strong Differences Environment Female Inspired Everyday Revenge Self Realization Realization Ease Making A Difference Badass Female Characters

Author:Alicia Sixtos

“I just used to love the sound of especially a female vocal like Ella Fitzgerald for example, it's just that empowering self-control that can make a whole room go silent. I fell in love with that sound.”

Self Whole Used Sound Rooms Example Female Silent Empowering Self Control Vocal Used To Love

Author:Ella Henderson

“I see a lot of young female performers who do not call themselves feminist, but would certainly believe in their own right to self-determination, and wouldn't want anybody to stop them from becoming themselves. They just refuse to recognize the relationship between their lives and those of other women, or feel any solidarity there.”

Want Feels Believe Self Young Becoming Female Determination Feminist Refuse Performers Self Determination Solidarity

Author:Ani DiFranco

“I never want to be called the funniest Indian female comedian that exists. I feel like I can go head-to-head with the best white, male comedy writers that are out there. Why would I want to self-categorize myself into a smaller group than I’m able to compete in?”

Want Feels I Can Self Able White Comedy Groups Female Males Indian Comedian Badass Comedy Writing Female Comedian

Author:Mindy Kaling

“The consciousness of one's physical self had to be repressed because, socially, the female body was so visible, an ongoing provocation and incitement of specular curiosity and fascination.”

Self Body Consciousness Female Curiosity Visible Ongoing Fascination Repressed Provocation Female Body Incitement

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“I read a lot by female psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé, who wrote prominent biographies of Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud because she studied with all of them. She had this unbelievable insight into contemporary psychoanalysis. What is so interesting is that she wrote her life, and she knew that her life would be about these men, and it didn't stop her from leading an incredibly successful academic career. But her strange self-awareness that she was going to bookmark these men's lives is really interesting to me.”

“The female psyche is inherently self-sufficient, because female sexuality is inherently self-sufficient. I think women are maybe more comfortable, or women are able to find physical beauty in each other that doesn't terrify them.”

Thinking Self Able Comfortable Female Sexuality Sufficient Self Sufficient Physical Beauty Female Sexuality

Author:Laura Marling

“Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality. There is gracious accommodation, yet commanding impersonality. Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self love.”

“You are the most dangerous kind of female the world can ever know. You carry the seeds for your own destruction and the destruction of everyone who loves you. And a great many will love you for your beautiful face for your seductive body; but you will fail them all because you will believe they all fail you first. You are an idealist of the worst kind - the romantic idealist. Born to destroy and self destruct.”

Knows World Firsts Believe Kind Self Body Beautiful Faces Born Failing Worst Love You Dangerous Female Destruction Seeds Seductive Idealist Your Beautiful Self Destruct Beautiful Face

Author:Virginia C. Andrews

“If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.”

Ifs Needs Giving Feels Self Existence Feminism Female Feminist Fearless Agency Defining Black Feminist Legitimate Power

Author:Bell Hooks

“The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred.”

Self Body Faces Social Self Esteem Depends Perception Female Hatred Income Cures Imaginary Social Change Surgeons Self Hatred Self Perception Multiplying

Book:The Beauty Myth

Source: The Beauty Myth

“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

“The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.”

Persons Self Loses Self Love Female Learning To Love Searching For Love

Author:Bell Hooks

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