Since a man can't make one
He has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one.
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.
In argument with men a woman ever
Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.
For where is any author in the world
Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?
I love being a beautiful woman when I look at myself in the mirror.
And since a man can't make one
He has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one.
No caparisons, miss, if you please. Caparisons don't become a young woman.
A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass.
Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn't crazy with religion.
Can’t own a woman, Mike. Wonderful companions, can’t own them.
There are few honest women who are not tired of what they do.
I still think too much about the mothers
And ask what is man born of woman.
Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.