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When I started out, there were three things that made film people look at me with condescension, I was young, I was black, and I was female. I have won a certain respect, but I think the film community still sees directing as a male job.

~Euzhan Palcy

Topics: Black Certain Community Directing Female Film Job Look Made Male Me Out People Respect Sees Started Still Things Think Three Were Won Young I Think

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I never really knew that I would be a lifer of strong female characters, but that seems to be the drops I'm being given, and I'm very happy for them. Hopefully, 'Divergent' will be the next thing.

~Evan Daugherty

Topics: Being Characters Divergent Drops Female Female Characters Given Happy Hopefully Knew Never Next Next Thing Really Seems Strong Strong Female Them Thing Very Will Would

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I don't fully understand my wife's emotions - and I'm supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women?

~Evan Goldberg

Topics: Character Emotions Excellent Female Fully Secret Supposed The Secret Of Understand Unravel Wife Women Write

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'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.

~Evangeline Lilly

Topics: Book Characters Children Female Female Characters Hobbit Include Linear Really Story Very

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The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.

~Ezra Pound

Topics: Admire Apparently Around Beyond Corner Eye Female Going Granite Green Jargon Know Me Monster Precisely Pregnant Square Why

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We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues.

~Fabiola Gianotti

Topics: Colleagues Female Male Opportunities Same Scientists Very Vigilant Will Young

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Whenever I told women - friends or acquaintances - that I had to go to divorce court, they'd invariably, without skipping a beat, ask, 'What are you going to wear?' It was like instant female solidarity: of course it mattered what I was going to wear.

~Faith Salie

Topics: Acquaintances Ask Beat Course Court Divorce Female Friends Go Going Had Instant Invariably Like Mattered Solidarity Wear Whenever Without Women You

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We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.

~Famke Janssen

Topics: Always Because Been Female Men Ready Superheroes Them Want Women

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I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man.

~Fanny Kemble

Topics: Abhorrent Any Corporal Endure Female Humane Labour Man Manly Must Said Slaves Sort Thought

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The Western man declares that in order to be beautiful, a woman must look 14 years old. If she dares to look 50, or worse, 60, she is beyond the pale. By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility.

~Fatema Mernissi

Topics: Beautiful Beauty Beyond Child Condemns Dares Female Framing He Her Ideal Invisibility Look Man Mature Must Old Order Pale Putting She Spotlight Western Woman Worse Years

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