Top 1200 Great Female Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness.

There's a female writer-performer thing going on in TV right now.

The male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage

I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers.

I guess technically I am a female chef, but I don't really think of myself as such.

It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

I had a great job and I lost it, but I'm doing great now, I have a great family, my daughters all live with me. Did I have a setback? Absolutely, but I don't look at it like a ruined my life.

Ordinarily, I develop videogames with female characters that aren't girlfriends, bimbos and sidekicks.

I think there is a wonderful trend of strong female characters on television right now.

They say things happen in three. I won with the great Kobe, the great D-Wade and now it's my job to win one with the great LeBron James. We have everything in place. We just got to get it done.

This is a concept that western culture has forgotten : everything is one! The idea of dichotomy is deeply wrong and nothing is better than a great symbol of China, the Tao, the wheel of yin and yang that represents life. The universe is the harmony of opposites, because there is no water without fire, there is no female with no male, there is no night without day, there is no sun without the moon ... there is no good without evil! This symbol is perfect since the white and black are embracing each other; inside the white there is a black point and inside the black there is a white point.

I've always wanted to do a female buddy film, the kind the guys get to do.

Regardless of what people think of the WWE, we're great at storylines; we're great at drawing money. We're great at causing controversy, and when the other sports do it, they usually do better. It keeps it interesting and makes it fun for the fans.

There are tons of female 'Star Wars' fans, and they're just as fanatic about it as the boys.

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

I feel like I'm representing fem energy as a bisexual black female.

All my career, I've played in great teams - Marseille was a great team, Arsenal was a great thing, but we never won a trophy. With Manchester City, first year, it happened, and it was just a big relief.

My favorite movie out of the old movies was 'Escape to Witch Mountain.' We were working with horses and bears, and when you have a great friend like Ike and a great director... it was a great experience.

Our music industry is male-driven. There are fewer opportunities for female singers.

I want to continue to try and break the barrier between male and female.

I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.

I don't understand when you say I'm a man or I have a deep voice. I know I'm a female, so there's no question for me.

Definitely, I feel that there is a need for more female producers, directors, and writers.

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

A lot of female athletes only have time off when they injure themselves.

I was lucky to have a bunch of really strong female role models in my family.

Coming from art school, I had a great sense of style - as did The Beatles and the Stones - and I enjoyed projecting that. Image, attitude, great music and great lyrics - that was the '60s.

The women doing comedy do not even think of themselves as 'female' comedians.

If she were going to die, I'd already be screaming. I'm a female bean sidhe. That's what we do.

No fake stuff. If you have a personal relationship with a female, it'll be easier and more real to do a song.

Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America - especially as a female.

I never set out to be the man who writes a lot of female characters.

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

Phil Neville could be on the road to one day, maybe, becoming the England manager. I know him closely. He was a great captain, a great leader. He's had great experience.

And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in great words because the tales were great, and the listeners became great through them.

I'm more proud of my upper body. Let's just say I'm a typical female in that way.

Basically what Salomé did with Rilke as a mentor was direct him toward the Russian Orthodox Church, so he could project his love of the divine feminine onto the Virgin Mary. She wanted him to stop the cycle of being disappointed by the ultimate humanity of women. She was like, "You don't want me, you want the Virgin Mary." It's kind of a mystical concept! She also changed Freud's opinion, a little bit too late, about the female psyche, which he had so wrong. If it had been better publicized, it would have changed Western society's perception of the female psyche, too.

The human brain is a product of natural selection. In the face of scarcity, our hominid great-great-uncles were unable to compete against our sapient great-great-grandparents' abilities to build more elaborate mental models and orchestrate their bodies' movements in more sophisticated ways.

We saw the integration of the female pilots in the Navy, in combat roles, and the resistance there in the beginning.

Ann Taylor - great name, great real estate, shitty business. Gap -great name, great real estate, declining business. J.Crew - Hellooo? Great name, better fashion image than the Gap.

I was a dancer and didn't ever think I could become a female wrestler, but here I am and doing it.

When only one or two percent of filmmakers are female, you can't help but have some kind of bias.

I believe that the female perspective is a very healing and circumspect one, and we have a right to equal voice.

I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come.

There are very few games, especially on the scale of 'Horizon,' that have a sole protagonist that is female.

Feminism is like any female-dominated group - a perpetual catfight.

That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great for this and great for that, and he brought this whole group of musicians to the project that I'd never worked with before.

I've done a lot of drama, and as a lifestyle, going to work and laughing every day is just great. It's great for your mental health, and it's great for setting up a nice year.

One of my dreams is to become a female entrepreneur with other projects not just related to music.

A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.

I tend to lean toward female leads who have their guard up, their spikes out.

The energy necessary to create a wormhole or to wrap time into nuts is incredible. It's not for us. It's maybe for our descendants who have mastered the energy of this technology. So if one day, somebody knocks on your door and claims to be your great great great great granddaughter, don't slam the door.

The three elements of creativity are thus: loving, knowing, and doing - or heart, mind, and hands - or, as Zen Buddhist teaching has it; great faith, great question, and great courage.

When the feminist movement was at its zenith in the late 60's and early 70's, there was a lot of moving away from the idea of the person. It was: let's talk about the ideas behind the work, and the people matter less. It was kind of a gimmicky thing, but lots of feminist women were doing it. Many of us took the names of our female ancestors - bell hooks is my maternal great grandmother - to honor them and debunk the notion that we were these unique, exceptional women. We wanted to say, actually, we were the products of the women who'd gone before us.

I like anti-hero women. Negative female characters interest me.

I just want to prove that I can do anything any other female model can do.

A woman has the right to run for election whether she's male or female!

It's so rare that you actually get to find a really well-written female lead.

In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.

Trans women are a part of the female population and I think that they deserve a respectful representation.