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. We don't really do that. We feel that objectifies women and that's not really what we're about.
Men put roadblocks in front of women as a way of hiding their inefficiencies.
What a farce it would be if men began to dominate the debate about men's oppression of women.
I ran
flushed and shadowed by no one
alone I settled stiff in mouth
with the words women gave me.
“There are tons of Black women completely capable and are darn good at that,”
Women are capable of living for so many other reasons than men