No amount of past oppression can justify women's oppression of the most vulnerable among us.
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.
Milan has some beautiful areas, it is beautiful in the fog, it is a bit like a woman wearing a veil.
I wanted to show that women can have many talents, careers, and passions.
“All great thinkers—scientists, inventors, artists—are men and women of vigorous imagination.”
Islam has secured equal rights for men and women in various fields of endeavour.
Then it is a shame on the men if one woman cannot be among five or even ten men.
The progress of any country depends upon the contribution of all its citizens, men and women alike.
"We women, we must come out through ourselves so that we must help our sons and husbands."
The Egyptian woman has proven, as always, her presence at the forefront.
Every woman who speaks up makes it easier for another woman to speak.
Women's human rights as a part of a panoply of human rights for everybody.
We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.