Top 1200 Female Writers Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

My whole life I've never felt, as a female, I was up to scratch.

The female body is a beautiful thing, and it should be embraced and celebrated.

Ambition alone cannot define a progressive female character.

The female biologically [has] more potential to show affection and compassion.

The valley spirit never dies. It is called the mystical female.

Much female conversation is, in fact, about survival - but in code.

... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!

For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.

Maybe I could manage someone and be the female Paul Heyman.

By and large, I think female directors are far more sensitive.

I am still fully committed to male-female equality.

Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn't we just make something new?

I used to go out with actresses and other female impersonators.

Well it's been about 100 years and every attempt at a comics writers' union has failed miserably. There is, sadly, a long history of short-term thinking and self-destructive behavior among my fellow comic book creators. No matter how many horror stories they have heard they won't even go so far as to hire themselves a lawyer when they need it. It breaks my heart. I am a very proud union member of the Writers Guild. And I can't imagine my fellow comic creators being able to pull something like this together.

Novels without female characters were a lifeless desert.

And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.

I'm the only female producer on Impact, and they're very supportive, the men.

In 'Boyz N the Hood,' every female character was three-dimensional.

All too often, female characters, in particular, aren't multi-layered enough.

The goal of female education must invariably be the future mother.

Female friendships have sustained me from my earliest days as a child.

There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV.

It felt amazing to be one of a handful working female directors in Hollywood.

It is very hard because there are not a lot of female driven scripts.

I am the first female chief executive of Hong Kong.

We never had a female predator surface in our investigation.

I have always been appalled by the depiction of female CIA operatives.

I do like to get inspired by and support any female leads.

It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body.

It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color.

I see the portrayal of any believable female character as feminist.

Generation by male and female is a law common to animals and plants.

People always ask how there are female priests, but in this world there are.

One thing I quickly discovered as a female pilot - ditch the heels!

I don't do Judy Garland or Mae West, and I'm not a female impersonator. I'm an actor.

Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.

'Elizabeth' is something I've looked to a lot for a strong female leader.

We're seeing more of the female psyche on screen than we used to.

At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after the obligatory, I write only for myself, I realize that I have an imaginary circle of peers - writers and respected or savvy theatre folk, some dramatic writers and some not, some living, some long gone. . . . Often a writer is aware as he works that a certain critic is going to hate this one. . . . You don't let what a critic might say worry you or alter your work; it might even add a spark to the gleeful process of creation.

He looks like a female llama who has been surprised in the bath.

Anything would be better in the US than what you have. As a government it's really very low quality, given the fact that this country produces eminent intellectuals, has great universities, and then the people who arrive in government are very mediocre. The Latin American situation has been very different in the first place, because writers have spoken for those who have no voice. The rate of illiteracy, poverty, joblessness in Latin America has been so great throughout our history that if the writers didn't speak out for the people, nobody would.

The problem, as a female athlete, is that you don't want to come across as negative and moaning.

It's not even the female rappers that are catty - it's the fans. They just want that beef.

The female sex has no greater fan than I, and I have the bills to prove it.

I loved seeing a lead female character who isn't perfect and isn't demonized for it.

I never planned to do female roles. It just happened. I was typecast.

Jesus H. Christ. I have new respect for the female of the species suddenly.

I'm used to one-dimensional female friendships. It's become a kind of trope.

What writers of fantasy, science fiction, and much historical fiction do for a living is different from what writers of so-called literary or other kinds of fiction do. The name of the game in F/SF/HF is creating fictional worlds and then telling particular stories set in those worlds. If you're doing it right, then the reader, coming to the end of the story, will say, "Hey, wait a minute, there are so many other stories that could be told in this universe!" And that's how we get the sprawling, coherent fictional universes that fandom is all about.

A beautifully-designed coat that drapes magnificently on the female form.

Throughout much of history, women writers have capitulated to male standards, and have paid too much heed to what Virginia Woolf calls "the angel in the house." She is that little ghost who sits on one's shoulder while one writes and whispers, "Be nice, don't say anything that will embarrass the family, don't say anything your man will disapprove of ..." [ellipsis in original] The "angel in the house" castrates one's creativity because it deprives one of essential honesty, and many women writers have yet to win the freedom to be honest with themselves.

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

I enjoy makeup and having someone who does my hair. What female wouldn't?

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

People say, 'What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?' I say, they don't really need advice, they know they want to be writers, and they're gonna do it. Those people who know that they really want to do this and are cut out for it, they know it.

One area of liberal phenomenon I support is female bi-sexuality.

Female politicos mostly represent a rather militant faction.

Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then again, poets seem able to turn bad love – selfish, shitty love – into good love poetry. Prose writers lack this power of admirable, dishonest transformation. We can only turn bad love into prose about bad love. So we are envious (and slightly distrustful) when poets talk to us of love.

Being on a show with a female lead is amazing for me. I love that.

It's not easy being a female guitar player. You have to believe in yourself.