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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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I was at god's order
To looking for you in every woman's eye.

Antoni Lange

Woman is the sum and complex of all nature, and is the visible glory of God.[…] The "Word made Flesh" [John 1:14] is the word made Woman.

Coventry Patmore The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)

There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.

Sean Connery

To get a woman, you have to be willing to risk losing her.

Neil Strauss The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists (2005)

Terrible that old life of decency
without unseemly intimacy
or quarrels, when the unemancipated woman
still had her Freudian papá and maids!

Robert Lowell Life Studies (1959)

There are plenty of fish in the sea, if I run out of women.

Joey Comeau

The nature of men’s responsibilities distanced men from feelings, whereas the nature of women’s responsibilities encouraged the expression of feelings.

Warren Farrell Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)

In the future, women will increasingly want nurturer-connectors, since part of what he will be nurturing is her ability to protect herself.

Warren Farrell Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)

Even allegedly gender-neutral words like “sexist” imply slights only against women.

Warren Farrell Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)

Not Jove or Nature, should they both agree
To make a woman of the firmament,
Of his mix'd purity could not invent
A sky-born form so beautiful as she.

Robert Greene Menaphon (1589)

Women are beautiful in the light of the day, but are even more so in the shadows of the night.

Andrzej Majewski Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)

A woman withers when she is watered only with tears.

Andrzej Majewski Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)

The British male has no interest in women. You could get all your clothes off and lie on the sofa and go "Come and get me baby" and they go, "Wanna cuppa tea?"

Alice Evans

A very special thanks to all the women that have cum in and out of my life.

Eamon

As many of us know, women are particularly focused on the household budget and the repeal of the carbon tax means a $550 a year benefit for the average family.

Tony Abbott Leader of the Opposition (2009)

Prejean, who got cosmetic surgery before the pageant, just spoke of 'how women can make a difference in the world.' Absolutely revolting.

David Shuster

The bodily strength, the fierceness and beauty of young women.

Martin Firrell Complete Hero (2009)

It's all right for women to cry, as it is for men to remember.

Pedro Muñoz Seca

Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.

Arthur Desmond Rival Caesars (1903)

Women find little pleasure in the society of women.

Arthur Desmond Rival Caesars (1903)

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