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.
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
How about this for a title: Men Are from Earth, Women Are from Earth—Just Deal with It.
The social subjugation of woman was the vilest counter-revolution ever carried out.
A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
(Woman organizing picnic) Most normal people would agree that pizza is nature's perfect food, right?
Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.
We have entered 'The Era of the Three-Option Woman and the No-Option Man.'
A part-time working woman makes $1.10 for every dollar made by her male counterpart.