I found that I could not compose a female without again devoting several months to profound study and laborious disquisition. – Mary Shelley Frankenstein, Chapter 18. Victor on the task of creating a female companion for the monster.
In spite of everything a sexist world tries to throw at the female-bodied, it’s fine not to feel pink, frilly and compliant inside your own head; it’s OK to feel confused, dark, both sexual and non-sexual, unsure of what or who you are. – J. K. Rowling
We all love the NHS. The NHS is like a secular version of the Virgin Mary. A loving and yet tortured matriarch, a benign shadow to the overt patriarchal dominance that usually abides. The NHS is definitely a she. – Russell Brand Letter to Boris Johnson, following his treatment in hospital for coronavirus.
I have never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question. – Mr. Spock Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘This Side of Paradise’.
The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses. – Hernan Cortes
We were called, male and female, to do great works with separate approaches and separate assignments. – James E. Faust
I don’t write about too many male businessmen, and I’m not apt to write about too many female businessmen. – John Updike
Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That’s the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries. – Betty Dodson
The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I love how Duran Duran had the female fan base, then it grew until males started to like them, too. – Ashton Irwin
I’m a female but I have a masculine side and I’m not going to negate that part of myself. – Annie Lennox
Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars. – Clifford Geertz
Hollywood studio executives don’t recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers. – Anna Faris
On American TV, there just aren’t a lot of female leads in comedy, especially at the peak of all the Judd Apatow stuff. – Alia Shawkat
There are so many male antiheroes but not nearly as many female antiheroes.There’s a lot of pressure on female characters to be likable. That puts a lot of pressure on women to be likable. – Melissa Rauch
We ‘chicks’ have munched our popcorn while romantic comedies became just comedies, and then each female protagonist got recast for Matthew McConaughey or Seth Rogan. – Emma McLaughlin
An awful lot of female celebrities are very beautiful whereas a lot of male celebrities are not so hot. – Graham Norton