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 most subversive thing a woman can do is talk about her life as if it really matters.”
The vulnerability of young women is very much tied into gender power differences in society.
Right now, most women in the world are diagnosed with breast cancer at an advanced stage.
I inspire women in science all over the world, and more so in Africa.
It takes a determined woman to make tea biscuit for no one but herself.
To the men and women of the greatest generation with gratitude and admiration