"My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body."
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"Spencer was searching for a woman interested in gold, inorganic chemistry, outdoor sex and the music of Bach. In short, he was looking for himself, only female."
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"If you're a strong female, you don't need permission."
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"A female Dalai Lama must be very attractive, otherwise not much use."
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"Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male."
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"It so happens that the major relationships in the novel [The Kite Runner] are between men, dictated not by any sort of prejudice or discomfort with female characters, but rather by the demands of the narrative."
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"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."
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"Yet but three come one more. Two of both kinds make up four. Ere she comes curst and sad. Cupid is a knavish lad. Thus to make poor females mad."
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"When you get a little older, you'll see how easy it is to become lured by the female of the species."
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"I have always found the female of the human species many times more difficult to understand than the male."
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"Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public."
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"I don't think I was constructed to be monogamous. I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed into as many females as possible."
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"I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped."
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"A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness."
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"And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other."
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"In those days, young stars, male and female, were all virgins until married, and if divorced, they returned magically to that condition."
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"Men always say there is no female Shakespeare.' 'Humph! You study the fellows who say that, and you'll see they are a long way from being Shakespeares themselves. Why shouldn't women have the same privilege?"
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"There were male colleges, and there were very few female colleges."
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"There are so many incredible women on TV right now. Viola Davis, Kerry Washington, Ellen Pompeo. These are really incredible female leads that are on network TV. Hopefully, with what I do, and the generation of actors I'm working with, that'll make the lives of other girls coming in after me even better. I hope to aim for that."
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". . . women were brought up to have only one set of manners. A woman was either a lady or she wasn't, and we all know what the latter meant. Not even momentary lapses were allowed; there is no female equivalent of the boys-will-be-boys concept."
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