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.
Women have the power in politics because they have the numbers.
How beautiful would it be if our women could have the same opportunity as men.
The only thing that keeps you sane as a man or woman is when you’re empowered.
I don’t think we would have been so hard on the woman if we stopped tying acts of service to gender.
Women are way ahead of men in terms of wanting to be social change makers.
"Women bring a different perspective to leadership, one rooted in inclusiveness and compassion."
“These women saved lives, protected our economy, and watched over our communities.”
It is the woman herself that matters rather than her covering.
I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am a Christian, and you can't take that away from me.
She is unique, even among women, who are all unique, each in their own alien way.