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 and girls have been on a perilous journaly of oppression and also wit and survival.
"Africa needs more scientists, and especially women scientists."
STEM is about changing lives and making a difference, and that’s what we want young women to see.
I felt something has to be done especially concerning the marginalization of women in governance.
Appointive positions serve as an entry point for women in politics.
Women should not wait to be invited into politics; they should prepare themselves and participate.
My challenges are similar to the challenges of any young woman running for office.
Women need to organise, not agonise over these issues and work in cooperation.