She was a dear girl and a stanch and true comrade—more like a man than a woman.
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 portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity
Are constructed with considerable care.
Very early, I understood that women were required to be other than what they were.
The saddest thing that befalls a soul
Is when it loses faith in God and woman.
A well-dressed woman, even if her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.
Helping women achieve higher pay is a core goal of this book.
Attacking me and women who use contraception by calling us prostitutes and worse cannot silence us.