A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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.
She shuttled between impish girlhood and neurotic womanhood.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts.
Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.
A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.