Female Quotes

• A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.

  

  Aristotle
  • Wife
  • Slave
  • Obedient

• There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Because
  • Female
  • Mozart

• Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

  

  Robert Frost
  • World
  • Men
  • Lonely

• More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Certain
  • Causes
  • Falling

• I have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them for years. But there was one, a beautiful bird, pure white with light grey tips on its wings; that one was different. It was a female. I had only to wish and call her and she would come flying to me. I loved that pigeon as a man loves a women, and she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Love
  • Purpose
  • Bird

• Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of T.V., and you grow up on false images of what love truly is. We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, about it's not usually that way. Then you learn love is something deeper and purer in form.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Up
  • America
  • Young

• The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Community
  • Female
  • LGBT

• I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Life
  • Listen
  • Get

• The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Body
  • Spirit
  • Inhabits

• 'Gravity' is a great example of a movie that we hope they're going to do more of. It's really entertaining, with a female star. It's not the kind of film you typically see, and gives me hope.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Gravity

• Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Voice
  • Public
  • Madness

• I love the action that I'm able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys and shooting skeet. I have my girly side, too. But, I do like playing the strong female roles, especially now with something as simple as Twitter, where you've got young women following you.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Love
  • Action
  • Playing

• I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Energy
  • Experiences
  • Female

• An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Love
  • Body
  • Disgust

• When Elizabeth II was crowned – the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest – the world lit up in her favour.

  

  Kate Williams
  • World
  • Conquest
  • Favour

• Often I am asked if there is any such thing as a female serial killer.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Female
  • Killer

• To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Me
  • Voice
  • Stronger

• It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Part
  • Ways
  • Programme

• It's interesting that a lot of female artists want to collaborate with me.

  

  Maluma
  • Want
  • Interesting
  • Artists

• The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Inspiration
  • Artists
  • Muse

• Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian custom of loading women's legs with pounds of heavy brass wire are extreme examples, but all over the world similar stratagems have been employed to make sure that once you have caught a woman she cannot run away, and even if she stays around she cannot keep up with you. ... Literally as well as figuratively modern women's shoes are what keeps Samantha from running as fast as Sammy.

  

  Alison Lurie
  • Up
  • World
  • Women

• The naked female body is treated so weirdly in society. It's like people are constantly begging to see it, but once they do, someone's a hoe.

  

  Lena Horne
  • People
  • Society
  • Naked

• Building followership and inspiration around female leadership is quite difficult to do.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • Inspiration
  • Leadership
  • Followership

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