"I think having a fighter in the lead, a female fighter in the lead, is exactly what America needs."
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"Wiles and deceit are female qualities."
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"The columbine ... is a graceful slender creature, a female seeking retirement, and growing freest and most graceful where it is most alone. I observed that the more shaded plants were always the tallest."
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"Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy."
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"The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway."
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"Now, my oral illustration be like clitoral stimulation to the female gender Ain't nothin' better Let me know when it's wet enough to enter"
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"Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman."
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"The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it."
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"Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves."
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"My female protagonist will not be this promiscuous, beautiful, dark-haired, thin lady. It will be a plump, blond, healer and so forth."
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"It's partly because our culture so hyper-sexualizes females that if you don't measure up to whatever we're forced to think is the standard, then you feel inadequate."
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"Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is."
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"I was also told some years ago that I shouldn't 'waste my time' with female-centric films because the audience was not ready for it."
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"I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances."
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"Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the world - the figure of the sharp female called La Guillotine. It was the popular theme for jests; it was the best cure for headache, it infallibly prevented hair from turning gray, it imparted a peculiar delicacy to the complexion, it was the National Razor which shaved close: who kissed La Guillotine looked through the little window and sneezed into the sack."
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"As a female I think it's a terrible hindrance in business. I think it's a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it's even worse because there's deep resentment."
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"Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?"
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"He looks like a female llama who has been surprised in the bath."
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"Of my two `handicaps,' being female put more obstacles in my path than being black."
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"I'm not really interested in a ton of female musicians but there is something about Britney that compelled me - the way she sings and just the way she looks."
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