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.
The child is a part of the woman, or of her entrails, before it is born.
Misogynist — A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
"A woman is like a tea bag; you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water,”
All tales are born in the mind of Spider Woman, and all creation exists as a result of her naming.
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
For me, there are two kinds of women — goddesses and doormats.
All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.