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.
If a woman reveals herself as more useful the lama could very well be reincarnated in this form.
Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.
"If women ran the world, we'd still be searching for the wheel."
There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
The fifties was the bleakest decade of all, perhaps the bleakest in some centuries for women.
It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.
We ask a lot of our men and women in uniform, and they never let us down. We must not let them down.
For a boy not getting any he had more woman problems than anybody he knew.
The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.