The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
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.
Women have been allowed to achieve individuality only though their appearance.
If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.
When a young woman's cheeks redden for no apparent reason, there is usually a man involved.
Byron says that it is easier to die for the woman one loves than to live with her.
An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.
When a woman forgets gossip, McGee, she is nearing the end of her road.