"And now, Madam," I addressed her, "we shall try who shall get the breeches."
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.
He gazed and gazed and gazed and gazed,
Amazed, amazed, amazed, amazed.
Believe a woman or an epitaph,
Or any other thing that's false.
A lady with her daughters or her nieces
Shine like a guinea and seven-shilling pieces.
I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women,
And pity lovers rather more than seamen.
I guess, 'twas frightful there to see
A lady so richly clad as she—
Beautiful exceedingly!
Our sex still strikes an awe upon the brave,
And only cowards dare affront a woman.
Like a fair lily on a river floating
She floats upon the river of his thoughts.
A girl whose cheeks are covered with paint
Has an advantage with me over one whose ain't.
There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.
I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.