#female

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

Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#comes #demand #eager #female #medals

Oh yeah, I think about kids all the time. I feel like the next person I commit to, that's going to be the guy who I'm going to have kids with. That's in my crazy female brain. So that's why I'm like, 'I can't commit.' ↗

— Amanda Seyfried

#brain #commit #crazy #feel #female

I have always liked lionesses. Female lions have always seemed like the best. They were really strong and took care of their babies and are beautiful. ↗

— Brooke Shields

#babies #beautiful #best #care #female

Michael Taylor is not being executed for homicide. Michael Taylor is being executed for raping a white female. ↗

— John Simon

#executed #female #homicide #michael #taylor

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

Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12. ↗

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

#children #domestic #during #experience #female

Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#characters #dreams #female #general #i

Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#been #does #doing #envelope #everybody