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.
(Man in bar) Can you imagine a world without men? (Sylvia) No crime, and lots of happy, fat women.
‘Trans’ women are not women. They are men with mental problems.
The vote, I thought, means nothing to women, we should be armed.
Women. You tell me they're not all witches, and I'll tell you you haven't been paying attention.
There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.
But ah! what mighty magick can assuage
A woman's envy, and a bigot's rage?
born in babylon
both nonwhite and woman
what did i see to be except myself?
I don’t want to be married to a woman like you. I want to be married to a normal person.
Women’s issues are human issues. Hunger is a human issue and therefore hunger is a women’s issue.