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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.
My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.
‘…Women I do not much care for myself - I prefer little Greek shepherd-boys…’
She was not a Respectable Married Woman but fully a human being.
This moment in history requires women to lead the movement for radical change (p 203)
I know
Not these my hands
And yet I think there was
A woman like me once had hands
Like these.
Compare victims' reports of rape with women's reports of sex. They look a lot alike
Leader Abdullah Öcalan
"The liberation of women is the liberation of society."