#female

We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#because #been #female #men #ready

They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#because #fans #female #genuinely #i

In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#acceptable #active #athletes #females #had

It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#assumed #female #hard #how #leader

I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#characters #comes #created #does #female

Les coutures, les modes sont souvent apliquées à couper les corps féminin de a transcendance: la Chinoise aux pieds bandés peut à peine marcher, les griffes vernies de la star d'Hollywood la privent de ses mains, les hauts talons, les corsets, les paniers, les vertugadins, les crinolines étaient destinés moins à accentuer la combrure du corps féminin qu'à en augmenter l'impotence. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#objectification-of-women #beauty

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex. ↗

— Karl Marx

#measured #position #progress #sex #social

I know I am the first female celebrity in the world who has allowed herself to be filmed like that in an operating theatre. ↗

— Brigitte Nielsen

#am #celebrity #female #filmed #first

I trained with the FBI in Portland and I also had many conversations with female FBI agents in Los Angeles, as well. That was again something that also came in very handy for Basic, because I'd learned already how to handle a gun and how to behave just physically when you're in a situation, a threat. That was very good to know. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#agents #already #also #angeles #basic

At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating. ↗

— Katy Perry

#block #chopping #devastating #female #female artists