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.
It finds women on their marriage beds, especially rural women.
I’d still like every woman to know that you can fight any battle, if it’s worth listening to.
If you don’t start now, you probably never will.Rachel speaking to African women.
But never think that you cannot do it because you’re a woman. Don’t hold yourself back.”
In such a sexist world, educating women often creates a domino effect.
Where are our women? So, we must be consistent. Politics is a profession like any other profession.
‘I was making decisions based on how is this going to come across as a woman…of colour.
That’s a choice I feel like I, as a woman, make all the time
“There’s still a need for feminism and a voice for what women have to contend with that men don’t.”
I came into politics out of The Women’s Movement… I have always been motivated by injustice.