#male

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#being #defined #female #human #human being

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#being #decrees #destroying #inferior #inferiority

Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#action movies #around #because #difficult #especially

I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#asked #been #brains #fact #fond

In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#any #attitude #because #better #doomed

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#curiosity #cursed #desire #female #female mind

The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#competition #employed #factors #female #following

But because it was able to balance that kind of humor with a sweet story and characters you really rooted for and also got across the girls' point of view, I've heard nothing but great things from younger and older females as well. ↗

— Jason Biggs

#across #also #balance #because #characters

It's like Brad Pitt for us. You might not like blond men with pretty features, but c'mon, it's Brad. You're not going to kick him out of bed for eating crackers. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#sex-appeal #beauty

Around 2001, I started analyzing lesbians. I started to realize that even really butch-acting or -dressing women still had a strong female identity that I never had. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#around #even #female #had #i