Christ made no distinction, but opened the door wide to woman as to man.
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.
Go practise if you please
With men and women: leave a child alone
For Christ's particular love's sake!
Just such disparity
As is ’twixt air and angels’ purity,
’Twixt women’s love, and men’s will ever be.
A woman loves to be obeyed at first, although afterwards she finds her pleasure in obeying.
The female woman is one of the greatest institooshuns of which this land can boste.
Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.
Many Abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.