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.
Online violence against women silences women's voices and limits their participation in public life.
Women's economic participation is essential to achieving sustainable development and social justice.
I spent all my money on fast horses, fast women, and fast cars — the rest I just squandered.
"The Mama Guides were created to empower women through knowledge."
A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
You know, I'm disgusted when dirty little boys run after old women.
A naked thinking heart, that makes no show,
Is to a woman, but a kind of ghost.
That's the nature of women ... not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.