The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
Women Quotes
This is a large page and a mixed one. Feminist theory, nineteenth-century verse, comedy and plain contempt sit side by side, and the source line is how you tell them apart. Warren Farrell has the most entries, then Shakespeare, Camille Paglia and Mignon McLaughlin.
Some of the best-sourced entries are the plainest. Betty Friedan, in The Feminine Mystique (1963): “The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women.” Shulamith Firestone, in The Dialectic of Sex (1970), argued that women and love are underpinnings, and that examining them threatens the whole structure of a culture. Dorothy Parker, in Enough Rope (1926), observed that men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
Two statements that are regularly credited to Catharine MacKinnon are flagged here as misattributed. If you are checking one of them, the notes on its page are the place to start.
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.
Men may rule the world, but women rule the men who rule the world.
Conservatives have a problem with women. For that matter, all men do.
Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.
The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women.
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
But from the hoop’s bewitching round,
Her very shoe has power to wound.
A woman still has to be twice as good as a man in order to get half as far.
In her first passion woman loves her lover,
In all the others all she loves is love.
She was his life,
The ocean to the river of his thoughts,
Which terminated all.
I must have women—there is nothing unbends the mind like them.
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.