Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.
The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
Comedy is something that I'm definitely looking to get into. I had a little taste of it and I do intend on going to classes for it because I think it's a different muscle, and it's hard to find female comedians.
Other female rappers are overly sexual, have no wit, and their lyrics are so generic. I want to change the game to make rap that shows I'm not a normal female rapper - it's not about how rich I am, how much sex I have, or how many boyfriends I have. That's just not me.
When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I was male or female. Also, I was a great admirer of E.B. White, so I may have thought that it would bring me luck to submit my first manuscript as 'E.L.' But if I were starting out today, I would use my first name.
I just feel like, for whatever reason, female playwrights don't really ask me to do their plays. Nothing would make me happier than finding the sisterhood, but I can't make them.
I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike, but women tend to think about more things at the same time, an overgeneralization, but I find it easier to make my male characters focus than I do my female characters.
I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.
Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
I know netball is the number one female sport in Australia, but hockey also offers a lot.
I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.
A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
All my best friends are women except for one or two. I feel women are superior to men, and I love having them around. All that female energy is good for me.
One of the things I'm interested in is not just women but the female qualities that are present in everyone.
The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
I will repeat again that females are the symbols of nonviolence. Another thing I would say is that a female is more compromising. A female can talk with anyone easily.
The best vocalists I can think of are female.
I think the culture today is very, very different from what it was in the '60s, and I feel lucky that I grew up at a time when I had these very strong female role models.
I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal.
Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
I love how Duran Duran had the female fan base, then it grew until males started to like them, too.
I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.
You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don't even have women in them, so I'm lucky I'm in it at all.
The advice I give, no matter male or female, is not being afraid to step outside your comfort zone and think more long-term about your career than maybe the next year.
I'll tell you what - it's not a choice until you're open enough to experience both male and female sexuality. Until you've tasted the food, you don't know whether you'll like it or not, as my mom always said.
I've always loved pinup art, and I've always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscious decision that has resulted in me getting almost exclusive work on comics where the main character is female.
Music is the key to the female heart.
It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
The best vocalists I can think of are female. There is no singer I can think of who can touch Ella Fitzgerald. And when Billie Holiday sings, she's merciless about it. Her voice has just this immaculate sadness - even in happy songs, there was something that was so broken about it.
I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.
I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.
For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life.
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.
I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry.
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
