#women

Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't. ↗

— Kristen Wiig

#maybe #people #see #studios #want

There are so many funny women in the world, and there has been for so many years, so I'll be happy when people can just move on from that, and things can just be 'comedies' and not 'female' or 'male,' and everyone gets an equal opportunity. ↗

— Kristen Wiig

#been #comedies #equal #equal opportunity #everyone

Why can't there be a lot of great women who are doing great things? ↗

— Kristen Wiig

#great #great things #lot #things #who

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#like #men #seem #wish #women

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds. ↗

— Gao Xingjian

#i #i always #male #many #men

[I]f the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or, if thou be not ashamed, concubine ... And thou thyself wert not wholly unmindful of that ... [as in the narrative of thy misfortunes] thou hast not disdained to set forth sundry reasons by which I tried to dissuade thee from our marriage, from an ill-starred bed; but wert silent as to many, in which I preferred love to wedlock, freedom to a bond. I call God to witness, if Augustus, ruling over the whole world, were to deem me worthy of the honour of marriage, and to confirm the whole world to me, to be ruled by me forever, dearer to me and of greater dignity would it seem to be called thy concubine than his empress. ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#concubine #devotion #dignity #freedom #honor

Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right." "Sam," I say, "that's not true; I am one of God's most lonely men. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#life #loneliness #lonely #men #sex

Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#both #children #conflict #men #men and women

I want to say a little something that's long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end. ↗

— Adam Yauch

#end #friends #got #i #little

If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out. ↗

— Roberta Williams

#computer industry #industry #keeping #more #nobody