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.
The war on our bodies as women must take first priority in this continent
The progress of women is the best measure of societal progress
I think many women suffer from self-doubt and this is not because of their own doing
I would like to encourage all the women out there to continue to discover who they are
I needed someone to say, “You’re a woman now. Dress like a woman
"Women diplomats: an essential factor for effective diplomacy"
“The Watermelon Woman,” is proof of that, of “what you can do when you’re invisible,”
I see that women in all societies still play the role of outsiders—even when they participate