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.
" I will never say that I want women’s football to be exactly the same as men’s football."
"But I believe today a lot of girls regard women’s players as idols now and that’s great."
"I have always thought that my food appeals more strongly to women than men".
"Sometimes a woman needs to show her competence before the guys “accept” her and trust her".
I’d like for women to be judged on their skills and competence, not on their physique.
I know the importance of trying to get women and underrepresented minorities into mathematics.
There aren’t enough women sitting at the tables where decisions are made.
Women are given messages all through their lives that they shouldn’t lead.
For a woman to be successful, she has to have a very supporting husband and family.