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Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.
Saddam Hussein
'Females constitute a significant portion of our collective. Unless we emancipate, enlighten and instruct them, our civilization will remain stifled and constrained.'
2.
A woman has the right to run for election whether she's male or female!
Muammar al-Gaddafi
A woman is entitled to vie for office, irrespective of gender.
3.
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.
Christian Dior
A garment is a transient structure, crafted to accentuate the contours of the female form.
4.
Males shouldnt be jealous. Thats a female trait.
Jay-Z
Males should not be envious. That is more characteristic of females.
5.
In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.
Shirley Chisholm
In conclusion, any form of bigotry towards African-Americans, women, or any other group is simply an expression of hostility against mankind.
6.
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
James Connolly
The employee is the servant of capitalist society, the female employee is the subject of that servitude.
7.
Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species-it is the tigress and lioness in you which tends to defend when attacked.
Margaret Thatcher
Most women protect themselves. It is the female of the species-it is the ferocious power in you which tends to safeguard when threatened.
8.
I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery path of female delicacy, to walk upon the heroic precipice of feminine perdition!
Deborah Sampson
9.
We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
10.
I have been carrying on a dialogue between the landscape and the female body (based on my own silhouette) I am overwhelmed by the feeling of having been cast from the womb (nature). Through my earth/body sculptures I become one with the earth I become an extension of nature and nature becomes an extension of my body
Ana Mendieta
11.
If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge to others; if they not only knew how to regulate their own minds, tempers, and habits but how to effect improvements in those around them, the face of society would be speedily changed.
Catharine Beecher
12.
I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.
Christian Dior
13.
For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.
Tori Amos
14.
If we do not mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?
Carol P. Christ
15.
Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.
Diego Rivera
16.
It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color.
Saint Cecilia
17.
We don't have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male and female might be fields which overlap into androgyny or different kinds of sexual desires. But because we live in a Western, patriarchal world, we have very little chance of exploring these gender possibilities.
Kathy Acker
18.
Pardon me, but we did not have the time to exchange that kind of personal information," Magnus said. "I could not have known! Moreover, I wish to assure both of you that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys." he paused and winked. "I didn't actually see any, so I never got the chance.
Cassandra Clare
19.
... in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form.
Sue Monk Kidd
20.
There's only room for one dominant female in the McMahon family... and that's me!
Stephanie McMahon
21.
The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth
Cherrie Moraga
22.
And perhaps, those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films, with women at the center are niche experience, they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.
Cate Blanchett
23.
There are any number of magical creatures, mostly female, whose singing can bring about horror and death. Sirens, undines, banshees, Bananarama tribute bands...
Simon R. Green
24.
I remember the mid-50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the UK.
Lynne Reid Banks
26.
I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.
Samuel Johnson
27.
The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.
Carol P. Christ
28.
If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my voice, I would not be reduced to accepting a miserable pittance from the BBC for interviewing a faded female in a damp basement.
Gilbert Harding
29.
One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.
Marilyn Monroe
30.
Because women and girls are not valued equally as human beings, they are treated as less than such. Female genital mutilation is one example of this that has to be stopped.
Waris Dirie
31.
Basically, all my life I'd been told you can't do that because you're female. So I guess I just didn't pay any attention. I just went ahead and did what I could and then, when the stars aligned, I was ready.
Shannon Lucid
32.
Perfume is a mark of female identity and the final touch of her style
Christian Dior
33.
For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.
Tina Turner
34.
I want to continue to try and break the barrier between male and female.
Twiggy
35.
The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term 'female physician' should be exclusively applied to those women who carried on this shocking trade seemed to me a horror. It was an utter degradation of what might and should become a noble position for women.
Elizabeth Blackwell
36.
If you cross a pickle with a female deer...You get a dill-doe!
Ashley Purdy
38.
No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.
Helen Clark
39.
Females carry the marks, language and nuances of their culture more than the male. Anything that is desired or despised is always placed on the female body.
Wangechi Mutu
40.
Theres a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.
Fetty Wap
41.
The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord." Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one.
Terry Pratchett
42.
In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
Sheryl Sandberg
43.
In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.
Al Roker
44.
Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations. Masculinity pertains to male dominance as femininity pertains to female subordination.
Sheila Jeffreys
45.
There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.
Jo Brand
46.
It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously painted old woman he was seeing before him, but the entire "female species," as it was his custom to call women. The individual disappeared, the features were obliterated, whether young or senile, beautiful or ugly - those were mere unimportant variations. Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite.
Nikos Kazantzakis
47.
If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
Camille Paglia
48.
Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female but not the male.
Alfred Kinsey
49.
I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry.
Suzi Quatro
50.
Moreover, I wish to assure you both that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys.
Cassandra Clare