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.
This is not only a special thing for me but also for my country and all African women.
The revolution of equality between men and women has began, there is no going back.
I want to have my own entertainment company and focus on women with talent.
It is time for all possible things to be done, for women to increase our numbers.
As women, we have the responsibility to support and mobilize those who come behind us.
Women, let’s support each other and collaborate; that’s what the mind-set change is about.
Women have the capacity to contribute meaningfully to leadership and national development.