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.
Women who believe they can’t do without friends find themselves to blame.
“There are over 4000 women whose lives have changed thanks to textiles.”
No woman should be made to feel guilty or inadequate on account of the choice she made.
At seventeen he had confessed to being "rather too fond of women and wine."
Women should not have to make a choice between work and the wellbeing of their children.
"If a woman is super successful, she is called a psychopath."
This is what it’s like being a woman: you say things, and you say them again.