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.
To be dispensable is a woman's worst nightmare and I was beginning to live it.
“In our land, a sad wife is better than a happy woman with no husband.”
The women are experts at waiting - for husbands, for rain, for unborn children.
The history of the women's movement in the West has unfolded completely differently from here.
Women must be a key partner in preventing the propagation of offensive stereotypes and views.
The issue is achieving not because you are a woman, but because you are working hard.
Women and girls in SA live in perpetual fear, and this is not normal.
Egypt will not be a democracy until women are as free as men.
The majority of people in this industry are women but they mostly remain in entry level positions.