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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The use of women as props for a sagging ego is accepted socially. Everybody sees it and everybody agrees that they don't.

Marge Piercy The Grand Coolie Damn (1969)

Prince, give the prize for chatter
To Parisian women; whatever
May be said about Italians,
There is no tongue like one from Paris.

François Villon Le Grand Testament (The Great Testament) (1461)

deprivation of the beautiful woman and sex with her until the man guarantees economic security in return; (...)

Warren Farrell The Myth of Male Power (1993)

This woman woke up to see me and John Stamos banging on her windows. She must have thought she died and went to sitcom hell.

Bob Saget Bob Saget : That Ain't Right (2007)

I like to have curves and feel like a woman. I hope that people see that in my photos and know that healthy is better than skinny.

Marisa Miller