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.
I want to develop individually but there is also the need for us to make women’s sport more popular.
I think we need to expect and encourage our girls and women to lead and contribute.
As women we may not be a minority, but there is a bond that we all share.
"We are there not because we are women. We are there because of our competence as managers."
I grew up with strong women, so it’s important for me to maintain that in my work.
As a woman named Amelia Earhart I have a unique opportunity to take."