#female

I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#body #female #found #had #half

I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#around #born #everyone #family #female

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy. ↗

— Bjork

#caged #energy #feel #females #like

Take male strategies for success in the world. If you've got all the advantages, if you're attractive and clever and all of that, you will generally go for very high quality females. ↗

— Susan Blackmore

#attractive #clever #females #generally #go

Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries. ↗

— Betty Dodson

#centuries #condition #conditioned #female #sacrifice

Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#built #business #female #gaze #hitchcock

But it's cool working with female directors because I'm a girl, so you do relate to them more. You can talk to them about other stuff like clothes and all that. ↗

— Elle Fanning

#because #clothes #cool #directors #female

The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation. ↗

— James Buchan

#arabic #became #country #distrusted #european

Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#considered #female #modesty #more #natural

Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#american #austen #completely #cooper #english