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.
How proud he would be of Caroline this evening -- and of the magnificent woman she has become.
Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against.
“Are you a religious man, Joe?”
Flitch pulled a face. “I leaves that sort of thing to women.”
I hate a woman who's a gadabout, I hate
The greedy man who'll plough another's field.
Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they've never had it?
What is a highbrow? He is a man who has found something more interesting than women.
Male-female fusion does not create women’s rights. It creates a fusion of rights.