Christ has recognised and declared woman's equality with man
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.
Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. -Nana
Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.
"He's probably never met a six-foot-tall hot elf-woman in a fur bikini, either,"
I'm here on the blacktop, the sun in my eyes
Women and Country on my mind
Women need a reason to have sex while men just need a place.
All the world's a cage, and all the men and women are merely hamsters
[Women] were not trained for freedom at all, but for its categorical opposite—dependency.