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.
The condition of women in a nation is the real measure of its progress.
I feel a woman is first and foremost a human being before being a woman.
Whatever a man can do, a woman can do better if given the chance to”.
"If it is a gender issue, men and women, everybody, must advocate."
“The world is ready for women and their stories. The world is ready to hear what women have to say.”
More and more the Chicana woman is emerging out of a traditionally imposed silence.
The woman of today is courageous, willing to follow their dream.