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.
Women and girls are disproportionately affected when there is no access to clean cooking solutions.
It is a sweet victory made even more special by the fact that it's history made by a woman.
As women we have to fight until the decision-making-table is diverse.
It is not Christianity but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
Mother’s Day is a wonderful celebration of the women in our lives who have nurtured and cared for us
We must put our concern for the dignity of the woman front and center in all that we say and do
It really amazed me that these men were programmers because I thought it was women’s work!