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"We have it in our heads that women only need to take up a certain amount of space and then we've done right by them. It's the same in every profession. We get a handful of women professors, a few female board members - that looks normal."
"Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance."
"Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart."
"Especially females and the younger ones like to be with somebody who is wise."
"I'm always open to questions asked, and it will be up to me at that moment to decide if I want to answer or not. I've always been the kind of artist that wanted to focus so much more on the music than all these other things. For example, "what does it feel like to be a female in a male dominated industry"?"
"The eternal female draws us onward."
"Gabriel is a unique archangel in the sense that it is almost certain that she is the only female in the higher echelons."
"Women in Jordan are participating in all aspects of civil as well as political life - as female judges, parliamentarians, businesswomen. And the evolution will continue. This is not something that happens overnight."
"Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly all the females—and there is more in that than you might suppose."
"I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal."
"I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms, by no means excluding females."
"African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases."
"as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves"
"The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin."
"When I first got to the majors in 2004, female fans held up signs asking me to marry them. Those girls today were what, 13, 14? I'm 23, but that's a little young even for me."
"There were only a few seats left in coach and Bob found himself seated next to a young female fan. 'I can't believe I'm sitting next to Bob Dylan!' she screamed.'Pinch yourself,' said Bob.""
"I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of females in film are really soft."
"Every female wanna come up to me and show me how much they're not attracted to me... these minority women... they're the only women I can get cause everyone else is scared of me."
"Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one."
"Boats and ships are female because they are beautiful, lovable, expensive and unpredictable."
