To those who oppose us, we say, Strike the woman, and you strike the rock.
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.
“It’s a privilege. It’s a pleasure to me, to the rest of African women referees,”
"Before we were listened to on social issues and gender equality and about violence against women."
The greatest financing needs are found in women-led enterprises across agricultural value chains.
I'd be honest with every man or woman who wants to be successful.
Many women do use technology, but we also need to be more involved in its development
Teaching science for a woman is as normal as it is for men, since we both have the capacity.