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.
Family planning is not only for women, it is for both men and women, and even for young boys
With connecting youth with women, peace and security, it is even better.
Thank you all so much for inspiring me – diolch yn fawr from a truly grateful Welsh Nigerian woman.
No one said it would be pretty, yanking despair out of a woman.
Over the years the women’s voices have been missing from the decision making tables.
Women should stop emphasising they are being marginalised, that is an expired message.
Women find it difficult to go to the hospital, so they use natural medicine.