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Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
A lot of gunters even questioned whether she was really female, but I wasn't one of them. Probably because I couldn't bear the idea that the girl with whom I was virtually smitten might actually be some middle-aged dude named Chuck, with back hair and male-pattern baldness.
- Ernest Cline
Passion was passion and love was love, regardless of who the participants involved were, or what sort of body they were assigned at birth.
- Ernest Cline
The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.
- Gloria Steinem
Ladies, here's a hint. If you're up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That's the hardest shot for the well-endowed.
- Billie Jean King
Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.
- Billie Jean King
There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.
- Billie Jean King
Even my grandmother would tell me that girls should not wrestle, it's a man's game.
- Geeta Phogat
I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.
- Jimmy Carter
The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
- Sheryl Sandberg
The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power. The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
- Maya Angelou
The man who is a bigot, is the worst thing God has got, except his match, his woman, who really is Ms. Begot.
- Maya Angelou