If to her share some female errors fall
Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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.
We cannot fight for love, as men may do;
We should be woo’d, and were not made to woo.
What is a woman? One who creates happiness and consoles unhappiness.
When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.
Women—one half the human race at least—care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.
When a woman is a really good driver she is just about perfect.
A good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.
Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.
A woman that is all smiles and graces is a vixen at heart; snakes fascinate.