Those three divine attributes of a perfect woman: goodness, beauty and wealth.
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.
No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.
...love is in the eyes, and one woman knows when another woman is in love.
Today, the power of women rings a bit differently and you can feel the shift.
Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
She's forgotten too, that woman who sprang from filth, from vermin, from treachery and infidelity.
I am here to represent Yorkshire women, who always have dinner on the table when you get home.
Does being a man make all things forgivable and being a woman all things unforgivable?
In other words...you can't be a misogynist and expect women to appreciate you.
This society is not hospitable to persons of color, women or left-handed people.
For a country that needs help, women are key to the success of Nigeria.