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.
[T]here are women who are for all your "times of life." They're the most wonderful sort.
It is a waste of money to pay priests to frighten our children, and paralyze the intellect of women.
Trade and gambling and a woman occasionally - that was a man’s life.
The text of the Bible is but a feeble symbol of the Revelation held in the text of Men and Women.
Woman has suffered for eons, and that has given her infinite patience and infinite perseverance.
We are all fools sometimes, child, yet a wise woman learns to limit how often.
"I feel that no amount of women's participation can be said to be enough."
Tonight he noticed how the women's eyes
Passed from him to the strong men that were whole.