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 our administration, women and youth will feature prominently.
I am urging women to come forward and participate fully in this all-important exercise.
When armed groups confront one another, it is the women who pay.
"Women are the first victims of war, but they are the one and only key to peace."
"I wanted to do something about that. The kind of women I knew would feature in the plays."
When a man is looking... happy..., the woman in his life deserve commendation.
I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn’t have the money and I didn’t have the woman.