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.
In the future, women will increasingly want men who can nurture them and connect with them.
Men learn to call pain “glory”; women learn to call the police.
There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.
Woman's nakedness is wiser than the teachings of the philosophers. [the title of his essay]
It is well known that I am available twenty-four hours a day to women astronomers.
I want to live in a city where half the people in charge are women.
“There's nothing like a head-strong woman to make you happy to be alive.”
That was Janice, a political woman, conscious of power structure and power itself.
After centuries of dormancy, young women can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.
Women live entirely in the present, men much more in the future where nature is less well organized.