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.
The women are influential and play vital roles in the political landscape.
When you educate a man, you educate an individual. When you educate a woman, you educate a nation.
Though current legislation is more favorable to women than ever before in Egypt.
When women are allowed to reach their full potential, everyone benefits
The African woman must arm herself to defend her rights when they are flouted.
As the only female presidential candidate, I represent Senegalese women.
What are your words of encouragement to other women who might want to get into politics?
How can we balance the country's leadership when there aren't enough women reaching Grade 12?
Women don’t want to be patronised, they want to be recognised for what they do.”