Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.
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.
Men believe the worst easily, and women believe it hides something still darker.
"It's about how boys become men — and why it takes women to make that transformation possible."
Don’t ever wear artistic jewellry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.
What will not woman, gentle woman dare,
When strong affection stirs her spirit up?
Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?
The company of women made of him a lover of women and, to a certain extent, a womanizer."
$2.3 trillion with a "T." That's $8,000 for every man, woman, and child in America.