We’re dealing with a very strong patriarchal system that continually marginalizes women.
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.
Violence against women and girls should not be normalized in our society.
We need to take away those loads from the heads and backs of African women.
A woman who is not healthy cannot contribute to the development of her country.
Women are not only victims of conflict, they are also agents of peace.
It is not easy to make an automatic assumption that civilian rule means more women's rights.
I want women to expect beautiful design and comfort from their shoes without compromise.
"...refuse to allow being African and a woman to be a limitation..."
The African woman has stood out for me as one of the most resilient beings that the continent has.
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
American women shoot the hippopotamus with eyebrows made of platinum.