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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.

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""I am a woman and I do not love war, but rather than accepting this (colonialism) I prefer war.”""

Taytu Betul

I am proud of the hair with which I was born and as no white woman wishes to do her hair like mine, because she is proud of the hair with which she was born.

Okot p'Bitek Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol (1966)

My generation gets to paint the picture of a Bangladesh where women scientists have the agency to design their own futures

Senjuti Saha

Men and women are known to complement each other, highlighting the importance of including women in various organizational structures.

Olivia Muchena

There's also steady progress in the representation of women at senior levels of the public service

Noluthando Mayende-Sibiya

The men go to the towns looking for work and when they come home, the women open their loving arms and everything else and they get it from their husbands.

Victoria Kakoko Sebagereka AIDS Activist Victoria Sebagereka made her mark (2021)

Let us also appreciate the Namibian women who participated in resisting the German conquest and all other colonial rule

Fransina Kahungu

I was the first woman to graduate with a PhD degree from the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California Berkeley.”

Kawthar Zaki

It is not very difficult to exclude the women and they do not exclude us; we get involved in as many things as we like to.

Ireti Kinigbe

Oh! I must take my shoes off. Huh! Hell hath no fury like a woman’s corns, has it?

Shelagh Delaney The Lion in Love (1960)

In our contemporary society, we say behind a very successful man there is a woman, but I don’t think it is right to place your wife or woman behind you.

Ngozi Chuma-Udeh

I would love to be the first Nigerian woman to read through the Bible and represent Naija.

Tomi Favored

I never exploited [the woman] in Uganda, why would I exploit her in the UK?

Lydia Mugambe

…the award is the result of the relentless struggle waged by Ethiopian women.

Azeb Mesfin

On behalf of the Federation of Dynamic Women of Benin, I solemnly declare my membership and that of the 99 women's groups I lead in the Republican Bloc.

Rafiatou Karimou

Our unique makeup as women makes it very difficult and challenges our ability to function easily in a male dominated environment.

Abena Brigidi ABENA BRIGIDI: A commitment to Exceeding Expectations and Working Extra Hard (2020)

Gone are the days when women were expected to stay home,now they have to be financially independent.And we are here to build each and every woman

Winnie Ntshaba

I was keen — along with many other women — to rebuild Libyan civil society, calling for an inclusive and just transition to democracy

Zahra' Langhi

We have a security fund to support women’s entrepreneurship, which has provided 236 women with loans amounted to 81 million dirhams ($8 million)

Bassima Hakkaoui

"I'm a faithful woman; I do a lot of praying. Everything happens for a reason."

Priscilla Tyson

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