We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. And if it doesn't, you're letting the side down. Throwing this stumbling block in the way of female artists is counterintuitive.
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Related It's interesting that a lot of female artists want to collaborate with me. MALUMA When I was 16, I created this online platform for female artists. I messaged women who I loved; that... PETRA COLLINS There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, becaus... ADAM LAMBERT It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and... LAURA MVULA It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R... JANELLE MONAE I'm listening to a lot of Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, and Rihanna. A lot of pop female artists. I ... STEVE CARELL At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the c... KATY PERRY I didn't see spaces where female artists could exist and exhibit their work. So I created a plat... PETRA COLLINS There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids... JENNIFER YUH NELSON Right now, black female artists are the most interesting people to think about. People are ready to ... TINK I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come. PAULA COLE We showed the industry that female artists could attract the same audiences as the big male stars. SARAH MCLACHLAN It's very odd that we have such an easy relationship to violence in this country, and we're ... GABY HOFFMANN There have always been female artists and singers putting bands together all the time. But we were n... BETTY WRIGHT Marlene Dumas is one of the two or three most successful female artists alive, if you judge by price... JERRY SALTZ The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking fo... KATE CHRISTENSEN There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don... HAILEE STEINFELD We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're f... JENNIFER PAHLKA I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this wa... BEN KINGSLEY The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that ... GLORIA STEINEM There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blon... SAMANTHA MUMBA Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchco... BRET EASTON ELLIS We see new male artists have their first single reach No. 1 on the charts, but it generally takes a ... CARRIE UNDERWOOD You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if... SERJ TANKIAN It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who p... MELISSA ROSENBERG There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the ... GAL GADOT Acting's incredibly enjoyable, but sometimes it doesn't feel quite enough. I've also wri... HONEYSUCKLE WEEKS Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned... It's fine for male artists to be angry... LYDIA LUNCH We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. The... GEENA DAVIS After Nancy Pelosi became Speaker, we were told, 'She's the first female speaker of the Hous... LOUIE GOHMERT When you speak directly at things and don't say you're going to try to do something or that ... J. B. SMOOVE There are a lot of artists that come and go very quickly, and I understand why just because someone ... RICKI-LEE COULTER Is it easy for me to write from a female point of view? Yeah, I am a female. I'm a very sensitiv... BENNY BLANCO Female athletes are supposed to be toned down. You're always supposed to talk about the team and... HOPE SOLO Eleanor is more vibrant than any female icon in our own century, JEAN LECLERC In ancient times, people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female... HARUKI MURAKAMI Makeup is something that a female has to reckon with every single day. Whether you wear it or don... ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN If you can't imagine female torch singers and Skrillex-style demon techno onstage at the same mo... SEAMUS DEVER There's not a lot of pretty, young female artists that's out. It's a lot of talent out t... TYGA We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we... BRIT MARLING Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chos... SHIRLEY MANSON Hollywood is lacking realness in their female characters. I don't think I'm the only one who... NICOLE HOLOFCENER Books speak more to a female audience than does his music so these novels give him an opportunity to... KATHLEEN SCHMIDT If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you... BARBARA W. TUCHMAN There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver. CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a ... BILLIE JEAN KING As a feminist, just to speak to what women go through, I think women are put in a box way too often.... KETHER DONOHUE Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French. JEFFREY EUGENIDES After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called fem... GERMAINE GREER I won't take parts where the female character has no substance. MARGOT ROBBIE It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways... DANICA PATRICK There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female liver. CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON The question I always ask is: 'Where are all the women directors in America?' You know, wher... GILLIAN ARMSTRONG In terms of 'Beyond the Lights' and 'Belle,' they're definitely stories about id... GUGU MBATHA-RAW It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a ... BILLIE JEAN KING Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that reall... JENNIFER DAMIANO Sophie(female): This life is not worth living without the people that make us want to tear down thos... LEVERAGE SOPHIE AND PARKER The problem, as a female athlete, is that you don't want to come across as negative and moaning. LIZZIE ARMITSTEAD It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator.... ANGELA CARTER Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t... JEANIENE FROST Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career... BARBARA CORCORAN Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because yo... DAVID GUETTA With some artists, I've noticed that after their songs have been licensed, on their next album y... PRISCILLA AHN Women are clearly the major consumers in far more than just female categories. It doesn't matter... ANDREA JUNG It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female. DESMOND MORRIS For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good... TORI AMOS ...mammalian embryos, regardless of their sex chromosome constitutions, have an inherent tendency to... S. OHNO 'Senior Citizen' and 'Silver Surfer' are the new euphemisms. Unless you're a fem... TERRY WOGAN When I was in college, my graduation thesis was called 'Female Directors.' I interviewed all... PATRICIA RIGGEN But there's still room for women, and what we see are emerging female athletes and female fans. This... PETER UEBERROTH Whether these matters are to be regarded as sport, or as earnest, we must not forget that this pleas... PLATO Anyone who ends up being a leader of a large complicated organization, whether you're a male or ... SANDRA E. PETERSON For artists of my caliber, we're not played on the radio, so we don't really get a chance to... BOY GEORGE The human heart doesnt change that much, ... I think theyre a few writers where you dont under... JOE WRIGHT There's still only maybe three female writers or two female writers to 10 guys in any kind of wr... KAY CANNON When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting femal... JERRY SALTZ In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forge... TIM BURTON Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And th... BRANDON BOYD Everyone thinks if you fix a male dog it will lower his aggression, but most of the biters are femal... MINDY MCGINNIS But it's a Broadway show, so even if you're Christine in Phantom, you're still a princes... CHRISTY ROMANO My fans are probably largely female; it wasn't until 'How to Make it in America' that gu... BRYAN GREENBERG It took me a while to warm to the '20s costumes on 'Downton.' I love it when women accen... LILY JAMES I wrote 'Thelma & Louise' in 1988, and we shot it in 1990. Everyone kept saying, 'Th... CALLIE KHOURI One of the most pusillanimous things we of the female sex have done throughout the centuries is to h... MADELEINE L'ENGLE People notice if you are black. People notice if you are female. We are certainly not either colorbl... CONDOLEEZZA RICE The troops aren't red and blue. They're not black and white. They're not male and female... TAMRON HALL I connect with an aura, with energy. And if the person with whom I connect happens to be a female, t... KRISTANNA LOKEN Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their b... BRANDON BOYD It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I do love that witches haven't really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little s... MADCHEN AMICK female vashikaran
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most usefu... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and wo... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the pla... ELEANOR DUSE Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it. ELEANOR BRON Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT What one has to do usually can be done. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You always admire what you really don't understand. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Alcohol removes inhibitions - like that scared little mouse who got drunk and shook his whiskers and... ELEANOR EARLY You always admire what you really don't understand. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A mature person is one who is does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even whe... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping ... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the descrip... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is better to light 1 candle
than to curse the darkness. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes ... and th... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I hope your dreams take you... to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the w... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean somet... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people ELEANOR ROOSEVELT So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all th... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, b... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countena... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You must do the thing you think you cannot do ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Whatever come we have to meet it. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it. ELEANOR BRON You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. ELEANOR POWELL Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be on... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver. ELEANOR HAMILTON Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Don't forget to vote for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Stay home if you're voting for Dole. ELEANOR MONDALE As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician. ELEANOR CLIFT The giving of love is an education in itself. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most u... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and ... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT You must do the things you think you cannot do. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of yo... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT