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.
There’s this assumption that women can’t and men can. My goal is to change that conversation.
Every woman is strong in her own way. There are no weak women.
Climate change is exacerbated by poverty, and this sort of poverty mostly wears a woman’s face.
They said, why is the beautiful woman on the cover of Time Magazine? and then they saw her nose.
“I feel blessed to have been the first woman to win this award back then in 1999."