#female

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist. ↗

— Patti Smith

#because #drawing #felt #female #gender

When the Olympics and World Cups come around, that's when you see the real outpouring of support that there really is for female football. ↗

— Hope Solo

#come #cups #female #football #olympics

He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

#desires #especially #female #had #her

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#book #courts #female #forever #justice

I wish that there were more female driven films, female-centric films being made. ↗

— Heather Graham

#driven #female #films #i #i wish

But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper. ↗

— Nicki Minaj

#being #being myself #end #female #i

C'est pour sauvegarder ce mystère que les hommes ont supplié longtemps les femmes de ne pas abandoner les robes longues (...) tout ce qui accentue en l'Autre la différence le rend plus désirable, puisque c'est l'Autre en tant que tel que l'homme veut s'approprier. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#objectification-of-women #patriarchy #beauty

To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson! ↗

— Anne Seward

#criticism #derision #entering #exposed #female

When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place! ↗

— E.M. Forster

#female #feminism #equality

We have flattered ourselves by inventing proverbs of comparison in matter of blindness,--"blind as a bat," for instance. It would be safe to say that there cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families. Tempers strain and recover, hearts break and heal, strength falters, fails, and comes near to giving way altogether, every day, without being noted by the closest lookers-on. ↗

— Helen Hunt Jackson

#blindness #california #family #female-author #female-authors