When will we get a female director-general of the BBC? Where is the colour when you go further up the food chain? It disappears.

I do think there are some great female comics: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph. They're the whole ball of wax.

It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.

Male female slave or free; peaceful or disorderly; maybe you and he will not agree; but you need him to show you new ways to see.

Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners.

I don't really consider myself a female director, and I don't want to do so for other women. Female directors are just directors.

Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.

Yeah, I've worked with a couple of female directors, now, and I think that they're amazing. As good or better than guy directors.

The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that has an incomplete set of chromosomes.

I grew up listening to such strong female solo artists. I love Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears.

I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of females in film are really soft.

I don't categorize myself. I don't think I'm perceived as a female act by my audience. My fans include just as many men as women.

The future is female, so women are invited, as they do, to take responsability in the world of politics, in the economics, in art

I wouldn't like to see a female Bond, because we wouldn't want to lose the Bond girls. But we could have a lesbian Bond - why not?

I never let my gender define me but in my whole driving career I only ever did one interview not being asked about being a female.

Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

One of the major things I really want to work on now is female rage because that's not dealt with at all - and I have a lot of it.

I can't wait to take my son to see 'Wonder Woman' - I can't wait to show him all the female characters can be well-rounded people.

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus.

I have a profound interest in embroidery, as I have female ancestors on both sides who embroidered their way through great trials.

One of the most striking features of karate is that it may be engaged in by anybody, young or old, strong or weak, male or female.

On an unconscious level, the demonization of sexuality usually implies the demonization of males and the victimization of females.

I hate to disappoint my haters, but I'm not the least bit interested in being a man. I'm perfectly satisfied with the female role.

I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.

A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.

In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female.

When I ran for governor, was I ambitious? Yes. Anyone, male or female, who goes through the trials of a campaign must be ambitious.

Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.

When you've played Buffy - who's such a strong female role model - it's really hard for another female character to compare to her.

It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.

I'm happy to always be included in the list of women. I'd like to be in the sections about female leaders and male leaders. Why not?

I don't really listen to a lot of 90s alternative indie female stuff anymore, but I loved Liz Phair and Kim Deal when I was younger.

The fact I'm the third female Prime Minister, I never grew up believing my gender would stand in the way of doing anything I wanted.

I was also told some years ago that I shouldn't 'waste my time' with female-centric films because the audience was not ready for it.

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

We just need a strong female perspective, especially in the world now...when the degrading of women has become such a popular thing.

I was a weird tomboy most of my life. I didn't see the power in my own female form for quite a long time. Maybe that's a good thing.

I love my husband, but it is nothing like a conversation with a woman that understands you. I grow so much from those conversations.

I've never thought of myself as a female engineer or founder or a woman in tech. I just think of myself as someone who's passionate.

There aren't very many notable Native American female figures historically. That's the way that it's been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea.

I am very interested in female characters and bringing a new perspective to mediums where not necessarily that's been valued at all.

As a female comic, if you talk about sex in any capacity, you will be branded a 'sex comic,' so I might as well go full force on it.

I fed my Yak on my spare Cadbury chocolate 21,0000ft up Everest. It was a blonde, very sweet female Yak. I made it my pet after that.

Why wouldn't female Marines come forward? Because they don't trust us. They don't trust the command. They don't trust the leadership.

When you give someone an award and you tell them that they are the best female chef in the world, you alienate them from their peers.

I have really good female friends. I've never bought the whole men-and-women-can't-be-friends thing. I think that's sort of nonsense.

It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth.

You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don't even have women in them, so I'm lucky I'm in it at all.

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