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.
Ass-milk, they say, tastes exceedingly like woman's. No wonder.
"Generally, society has the perception that tech fields are not meant for women."
"Some tech workplaces don’t create the ideal environment for women to thrive."
You don't have to choose between being a homemaker and a career woman.
A woman giving birth isn't experiencing waves, she is like the ocean; the waves are a part of her.
It's not very competitive towards other women, it's competitive towards yourself.
Modest women, by St. Denys, they equal in number the Phoenix.
There is no obstacle for a strong, qualified woman. There were none for me.
Violence against women is not a women's issue. It's a societal issue.
There are currently only 8 women out of 73 seats. It is scary and it is unthinkable.