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.
Men look at breasts the way women look at babies. 'Aw, isn't that lovely.'.
What women do is survive. We live by ones and twos in the chinks of your world-machine.
You'll have to excuse my friend, Ryan. That's the first time he's ever touched a woman.
(Man in bar) I like an older woman. (Sylvia) I'll pass that along.
Think not that aught the fury can surpass
Of woman, when she feels that she is scorned.
Never, O never have I abused a woman. Hurting a woman would be like kicking my own mother's tummy.
I may have a beard, and manly limbs and body, yet confined by these, I am and remain a woman
Sultan Alau'd Din put to Flight; Women of Ranthambhor commit Jauhar, a Rajput painting from 1825.