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.
A woman character without allure would be like a Superman without muscle.
Since they are women, stooping to the level of gifting undergarments will defame them only.
We don't support bombing other people's kids, unlike the other woman in the race.
I'm a strong-minded woman, but I don't try to deny that I'm a female in any way.
I knew if I quit, nobody would ever believe that women had the capability to run 26-plus miles.
While I am not teetotal, a drunk woman I find revolting and Burns orgies detestable.
Women driving is just the first step - we have a long way to go.
It is less difficult for a woman to obtain celebrity by her genius than to be forgiven for it.
Women do both, raise a family and participate in the struggle, we have to make them connect.
I don't understand women. Nobody does. Least of all themselves.
We have to prove ourselves, women, we can do it maybe even better.
Target SME's and you target women because that is where they access the business sector.