Women are really much nicer than men:
No wonder we like them.
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.
Their sophistry I can control
Who falsely say that women have no soul.
Woman's love is writ in water,
Woman's faith is traced in sand.
Soft as the memory of buried love,
Pure as the prayer which childhood wafts above.
In danger, mind you, a woman behind you
Can turn your blood to fire.
She sighed. "All men are the same."
"So are all women—after the first nine."
Charming women can true converts make,
We love the precepts for the teacher’s sake.
When God created Eve, He let a deep sleep fall upon Adam; for woman is the man's dream.
I always thought a tinge of blue
Improved a charming woman's stocking.
Wisest men
Have erred, and by bad women been deceived;
And shall again, pretend they ne’er so wise.
Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace
To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
With varying vanities, from ev'ry part,
They shift the moving toyshop of their heart.
Such, Polly, are your sex—part truth, part fiction;
Some thought, much whim, and all a contradiction.
Run, run, Orlando: carve on every tree
The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she.
Is there no way for men to be, but women
Must be half-workers?
He bears an honorable mind,
And will not use a woman lawlessly.