Quotes with female-centric

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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Carol P. Christ If we do no mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and domestic abuse, everything, we lose about 6 million humans every year just because they were born female. That's a holocaust every year.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Barry Humphries In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Nicolai A. Berdyaev In sex we have the source of man's true connection with the cosmos and of his servile dependence. The categories of sex, male and female, are cosmic categories, not merely anthropological categories.
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  • August Strindberg In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Florence Nightingale Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement - they have only tried to be ''men'' and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.
    Florence Nightingale
    English social reformer, founder of modern nursing and statistician (1820 - 1910)
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  • Benny Blanco Is it easy for me to write from a female point of view? Yeah, I am a female. I'm a very sensitive type of guy. I try to put my female hat on and think how a female would think. If I'm watching 'The Notebook,' I'm definitely gonna cry. I cried during 'E.T.' too.
    Benny Blanco
    American record producer, DJ, songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Camille Paglia It is no coincidence that while some major female artists have married, very few have borne children. The issue is not conservation of energy but imaginative integrity. Art is its own self-swelling, proof that the mind is greater than the body.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Abigail Adams It is really mortifying, sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of education between the male and female sex, even in those families where education is attended to.... Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne.
    Letter to John Thaxter, 15 February 1778
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Billie Jean King It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Arianna Huffington It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Bill Paxton It's easy to get jaded. It's easy to get lazy. It's easy to get too self-centric, like, 'Why me? What about my needs?' It has nothing to do with that. But you see, you are the thing you are selling whether you are a director or an actor in this business. It's very tough. The town doesn't realize that its greatest resource is its people.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Angela Carter It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis It's like my characters, all my men are Dad and me in a mess; all my female characters are smart and hopeful, like Mom just trying to make the best of things.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Joss Whedon is a hero of mine, and what he's done for women in film and television, particularly when it comes to writing female roles that would typically go to a man, is awesome.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bow Wow LL Cool J was a rapper-turned-actor, and I also relate to him because he was sort of a ladies' man and had a female fan base, but yet he's a positive dude. You never read about him getting into trouble or going to jail.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • Siri Hustvedt Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression.
    Siri Hustvedt
    American novelist and essayist (1955 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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