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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.

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The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power, You just take it.

Roseanne Barr

Those who fear woman’s incapacity to cope with the trials of life, should consider what is now actually thrust upon her by existing customs.

Matilda Joslyn Gage Let the Truth Prevail (1852)

In my experience, women tend to be less tribal, they tend to find it easier to establish trust more quickly

Caroline Lucas

I have strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered.

Edmonia Lewis

I've never felt like a woman, to be honest with you. I've never felt desirable. I've never felt feminine.

Billie Eilish

I apologise for everything…As a woman, I’ve apologised my whole life.

Lisa Taddeo

Women need to equip themselves to address depression.

Divya S. Iyer

Hold tight to the conviction that a woman is a human being too, who can be independent....Also realize that equality must exist between men and women.

Hermann Rorschach

When I was sixteen, I dreamt of my future and committed to focus, strive, and endure to ensure I could be the woman I envisioned.

Julie Gichuru

“...and the women spread their ntsaroz and sit on one side, the men on the other, like they are two different rivers that are not supposed to meet.”

NoViolet Bulawayo We Need New Names (2013)

A nation without period poverty and a nation that provides equal opportunities for girls and women to succeed in all aspects

Theresa Nyava

As a black woman who has lived in many countries, I am conscious of what it means to be black in different parts of the world.

Sarah Ladipo Manyika Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun (2016)

The homemaker aspect of a woman’s life teaches me one thing and that’s to joggle and manage different things at the same time.

Chinelo Anohu

No one can speak of FPR-Inkotanyi without acknowledging the role of women and their children in the struggle to liberate Rwanda

Jeannette Kagame

The time is ripe now for women to prove it beyond doubt that they deserve positions of responsibility by merit not by virtue of gender.

Tumie Ramsden

I don't support the idea that gender equality and women empowerment should be attained at the cost of the family

Miria Matembe

"When women are given the platform and the opportunity, they can deliver,"

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

“The African Women’s House will be a place where women leaders come together to learn, to lead, and to change the future of our continent,”

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

We have moved past the debate on why women should be included. The question now is how, with resources, protection and accountability

Joyce Banda

Not all women are the same, there are very kind hearted wise women.

Aderounmu Adejumoke

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