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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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Being an African woman, I believe we face many unique obstacles.

Dorothy Okatch

My first thought was … to make Ghana be spoken about in a very, very good light in women’s football.

Chantelle Boye-Hlorkah

For us to tell authentic stories about women, sometimes we need those perspectives to be from women themselves.

Tendaiishe Chitima

"Together, we must rise up, not only for our fighters, but for all women who suffer, for our children who deserve a better future."

Wivine Moleka

"My first intervention as a woman, I will fight for the cleanliness of our community, because it is very dirty."

Furaha Toto Safari Chimanuka

"By raping a woman, you destroy and humiliate an entire community."; Details regarding the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

Tatiana Mukanire Bandalire

"My commitment is to continue to inspire all Congolese women who are watching us and who believe in women's politics."

Clotilde Mutita Ngalula

Role models are critical for anyone, including Black women in STEM in academia.

Temiloluwa Prioleau

We shall leave no stone unturned as we project more Women to professional limelight.

Hauwa Muhammed Sadique

We probably all have had moments as women where we’ve tried to burn the house down because we’ve not found the space for ourselves to exist in it fully.

Jessie Buckley

During my years of practice, I realised that law is an area where a lot of women are not represented - especially in the Northern part of the country.

Binta Nyako

Violence against women and girls is not inevitable; it can be prevented through deliberate action, accountability and sustained commitment.

Saudatu Mahdi

I have personally known of deaths of girls and women to have directly resulted from Female Genital Mutilation.

Gertrude Kulany

We are African women – we live here in Africa and even when we live elsewhere, our focus is on the lives of African women on the continent.

Josephine Ahikire

We all have the same goal, to support women and girls in Egypt and build our dream of a fair and equal society, free from violence.

Azza Soliman

If we look at women as a group which represents half the Arab nation, we cannot help but admit that this group is the weakest area of our social body.

Amīnah al-Saʿīd

I want to create an entity on a wide scale where women can go to when they experience any violence to help them get their rights.

Nadeen Ashraf

Wearing green uniforms they blended with the trees and when women collected firewood, the soldiers would jump out and rape them, laughing like it was a game

Rebecca Lolosoli

There is no liberation without women.

Walter Sisulu

One must understand that restricting the young women workers' movements increases their vulnerability immensely.

Urmila Bhoola

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