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.
Curst Love! what lengths of tyrant scorn
Wreak'st not on those of woman born?
Women care about specifics, about details. Men care about generalities, about abstract principles.
I wouldn't hire them [women] with the same salary. But there are many women who are competent.
If anyone doesn't think there's a place for women in tech, it's completely demolished in this movie.
If society could begin to see people, as children, as women, then perhaps life would be different.
I cannot explain why a man always feels he has rights over a woman.
Women are biologically and socially complex; our policies must embody both equity and equality.
Women can contribute. Women are part and parcel of this nation building.
We must also address equity more than equality. This will provide a ladder for women to succeed.