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.
One of the reasons why women do not want to speak up is the feeling that ‘who would believe me?
To be a woman farmer is challenging because, firstly, not many women are farming commercially.
I am a woman of faith, shamelessly, and you can’t buy that quality, you can’t train it into someone.
Changing the minds of many women to understand that we are the kingmakers is a big achievement.
"Trying to force a percentage of woman on boards – I'm completely against all that."
Being pretty much the only woman and a woman of colour in my tech career I just had to survive.
The battle for women's empowerment goes hand in hand with the battle for the survival of the planet.
I rode the cusp of socio-economic changes as more women entered medicine.
We are going to continue to do a lot to enhance women and youth empowerment in the state.