I believe she keeps on being queenly in her own room, with the door shut.
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.
There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.
There have been women I have loved ... A lot, as discreetly as possible.
What female heart can gold despise?
What cat's averse to fish?
A girl and a guinea are both alike. You never know how good they are till you ring them.
Galatea aims an apple at me, naughty girl,
And flees into the willows — and wants to be seen first.
With guileful thoughts she bore
In one hand water, in the other fire.
He only wins a woman's favour
Who with strong arm in need can save her.
There's scarce a case comes on but you shall find
A woman's at the bottom.
What could a woman's head contrive
Which it would not know how to excuse?
The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.