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.
Women should always do the dirty work
. I never do. I would hate to lose.
Paul had always thought that women were never more serious than when they were naked.
She'd like to be indispensable; that's what every woman wants...
The only kind of socialist to be is a Stalinist, and the only kind of woman to be is a Bitch.
Half the humans are women, so I think half the scientists should be women - a legacy of my parents.
Even women and children were not spared, and were ruthlessly cut to pieces.
‘... a severe woman with a patient but unprevaricating gaze, who turned out to be Indira Gandhi.’
Nature demanded so much of the woman and so little of the man
Ishaq 734 - "As for Ali, he said, 'Women are plentiful, and you can easily change one for another."
I am not the woman president of Harvard. I am the president of Harvard.