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.
I don't think I'll get the same joy out of a woman that I would with a monkey.
We must be women, wives, mothers and politicians. Men must consider us in all four aspects.
I don’t like to go over territory that I’ve explored before. And I’d never played a peasant woman.
A man imagines he wins by strenuous assault. The woman knows the victory was due to surrender.
“People never used to think that women were able businesswomen or able business managers.”
I have been able to devote my energies to what I really am, a woman painter. It is my life.