The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.
Chan Marshall has one of the most haunting, wrenching voices of any current singer, male or female.
Women perform great in the box office. Audiences want to see lead female characters.
The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.
I think doing a female Elf in the Woodland realm was a bit safer, because we haven't met one of those yet.
You don't often see a cross section of female characters interacting with each other at the top of a chain.
You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.
If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
I'm worried about being pigeonholed as an artist, especially a female one, but I think, essentially, it's the music which people judge you by.
Motorsport has always been my passion, and speaking about being a female in a man's world is part of my responsibility.
It's nice to know that a studio is willing to put a female in a film without expecting the character to have a love interest.
It's not unusual for me to find that I'm the only female journalist of color in the front row during some of the briefings.
There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity.
The art of what they call female impersonation, or the drag shows, really helped me to hone what type of woman I was.
I'm not sure I even need a lover, male or female. Sometimes I think I'd settle for five good friends.
Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?
I do sing a bit, a solo called 'Rubies,' and the female vocals on 'In Paradisum,' 'The Sound of Silence,' and 'Sapphire Clouds'.
Full disclosure here - I had a terrible crush on Smokey Robinson, like every other female on the planet.
For acting, if there's a strong female role and there is that action element, for me that just feels really natural.
I think, so often, female cofounders are positioned in this competitive, catty way. It's just awful. It's not reality.
A part of being a female musician is kind of getting past your looks and just honing in on the music.
I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
That's the world of policing. I've met some bad-ass female cops, who are very cool people.
It could be partly my taste. It's just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable.
It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
We only see female protagonists who are likeable, with one cute flaw, such as adorable clumsiness. I'm fed up with it.
A Romney presidency will be awesome unless you're poor, sick, gay, female, Mexican or a dog.
It's interesting to play a female character who's not ever using feminine wiles to get things done.
I know I am the first female celebrity in the world who has allowed herself to be filmed like that in an operating theatre.
But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
I am in a small minority as a black female with a disability. But I've shown that even with conditions like MS, it's not the setback that it has to be.
I think that there is just a deep and abiding sexism that's part of your life from the moment that you're conscious as a female.
The disciplinary power that inscribes femininity in the female body is everywhere and it is nowhere; the disciplinarian is everyone and yet no one in particular.
I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
I want to go down in the history books as one of the greatest female boxers of all time, and I think I'm on the right path.
I used to work at Bloomingdale's when I was transitioning, and they didn't want me using the same bathroom as the female employees or what have you, so it was a struggle.
In my view, Zhang Lanxin is one of our best female martial artists, and I can't rate her highly enough.
As female athletes all over the world have discovered the hard way, changing cultures and mindsets takes action.
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.
I would absolutely classify as being incredibly progressive the fact that I am the third female prime minister.
The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life.
Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.
I don't really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles.
I have made a vow to attain Enlightenment in the female form - no matter how many lifetimes it takes.
I think the impact I make is to inspire Filipino female athletes that they can do it as well... A Filipina can be a sports hero.
I have always found the female of the human species many times more difficult to understand than the male.
There are a lot of white female-led startups that are raising money without a tech founder. At the core of it is value.
Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is.
We just don't subscribe to the conventional wisdom that you can't have an action series led by a female character. It's kinda nonsense to us.
The funny thing about being a female director in the last 25 years is that I never let it feel different.
The Female Western is the battle between the good and evil methods of getting the men who perform best.
Human darkness fascinates me; I find it intriguing. And there are few female characters who are explored in this light.
There aren't very many notable Native American female figures historically. That's the way that it's been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea.
Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.
Everyone - particularly my female friends I speak to - all say 'I wouldn't be in my twenties again if I was paid.' It's a difficult time.
A lot of time it is hard to break into the commercial world and that has only to do with money and that has nothing to do with being female or male.
I get lots of female attention on social media and some of it is disgusting. But my wife doesn't really care.
I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry.
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