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.
When you save the life of one woman, you save a generation who would otherwise be without a mother.
We shall not rest until the women of this country have obtained justice.
I think Rwandan women have been working together, We don't just look out for ourselves.
We are transforming our society, and women are part of the solution.
"There are few Rwandan writers, and among them, even fewer women."
“Every woman who works must find creative ways to ensure she is doing her best to juggle them well.”