It used to be so important to choose what you were. Gay or straight. Male or female. I think the new generation is more fluid.
It's not easy being a female in the U.K. pop industry. We've seen the white male dominance, misogyny, sexism and lack of diversity.
I didn't know a single female photographer who covered conflict who even had a boyfriend, much less a husband or a baby.
Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is.
If you think about how many headlining female comics are out there, you could say 15, maybe 20?
Some people thrive on creating chaos and then operating through it, though usually that's presented as a female trait.
I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!
I aim to inspire a bunch of female guitar players to get out there and take it seriously and never give up.
Seeing myself as female every time I look in the mirror is painful in a way I will never be able to describe.
Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.
If I have chosen the female form in particular, it is because beauty has been debased and exploited in our sensual 20th century.
It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made.
... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.
I've often felt like an outsider, not necessarily because I'm Korean, an immigrant, or female. I think writers are odd people.
I haven't spent years, like Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices, toiling for female economic empowerment on five continents.
Mariah Carey, Rihanna, the female rapper Nicki Minaj, my kids - and what do they all have in common? They're all lighter skinned. Do you think that's an accident?
Whether you're male or female, going to a World Cup is the biggest thing that will ever happen in your life.
In the social-media environment that we're living in, everyone's got an opinion whether you want it or not. There's an extra layer to that as a female questioner.
What should matter is whether I stand for female empowerment, and I don't think there are many women out there who have any doubts about that.
The mysteries of the female sex! We men can never hope to fathom your depths, but only try not to drown in them.
The strongest factor in conditioning is sex, in the sense that the first thing that a person is really taught is whether they are male or female.
Take a human body, a male and a female, it is obvious that certain parts are meant together. There is a purpose and a design for it and there is a result of that.
We can all agree that the best part of 'Black Panther' was his female army, the Dora Milaje. They made the movie.
My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.
Most female artists - to do what you have to do and to be as honest as you have to be, to be as selfish as you have to be, as tunnel-visioned as you have to be to make art, not entertainment - you can't compromise, really.
We just need a strong female perspective, especially in the world now...when the degrading of women has become such a popular thing.
Mulan is not a superhero, so her physical action needed to be anchored in a strong female body and bounded by the laws of physics.
She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer.
Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.
The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.
Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.
If you can't imagine female torch singers and Skrillex-style demon techno onstage at the same moment, you don't know Eurovision.
My mom is the first female rapper I've ever known. I'm thinking, like, Okay, yeah, this is normal. Everybody's doing this.
The warfare between the unaroused male and female is constant and ferocious. Each blames the other for his loss of soul.
A female celebrity just has to chat and smile with a guy for him to become the new man in her life. Amazing.
The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps.
People expect to just hear something raunchy from a female - we're missing meaningful messages as women. We don't have enough stories.
There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.
I know the first female astronauts selected were definitely an inspiration to me, and so maybe I will be a role model.
If you go into the mainstream with a female perspective that seems to resonate with a lot of people, you have a political agenda imposed on you: you are told that you are a feminist.
If there was an Oppression Olympics, I would win the gold medal. I'm Palestinian, Muslim, I'm female, I'm disabled, and I live in New Jersey.
People keep saying how amazing it is having a female lead, and I just sort of feel, 'Well, of course!'
I truly believe that diversity is so important, and I hope that I can use my platform to encourage and inspire other aspiring female artists.
I'm the female equivalent of a counterfeit $20 bill. Half of what you see is a pretty good reproduction, the rest is a fraud.
I do think that character types trend. As a female comedian, the parts that come my way are often terrible women.
When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a lover, as a daughter.
There are still movies where females are just there to be cool, or they are there to lambaste their husbands and scold. But female comedy characters are changing for the better.
I think Mariska Hargitay on 'Law and Order: SVU' is a really good example of a female lead I'd like to emulate.
More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough.
We have so many male superstars, but there are just a few female actors who have attained that status. It is not only because of the industry; it's in the society.
I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.
There?s nothing more fierce than the female, like the momma lion. Believe me, my wife is a good example.
Back in the day when I was on The WB, I may have only had one or two female directors throughout the entire run of a series.
First female referee can't play probably, either, right? But you're thinking the game like you know it? Okay, see ya.
A baroque art-rock bubblegum broadcast on a frequency understood only by female teenagers and bred field mice.
Since the late 1970s, 163 million female babies have been aborted by parents seeking sons.
In varying degrees and and upon different levels all gods and goddesses represent aspects of One God Which is both 'male' and 'female'.
Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
My instinct is to surround myself with the company of wise, witty, wonderful women, and I have a great bank of female friends of all ages.
I was really serious about being an actress. I was playing young female characters and not feeling very connected to them.
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