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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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What I would like as well is getting more sponsors for women’s cricket

Masabata Klaas

Women’s cricket is on the rise and is definitely a space to watch at the moment

Faye Tunnicliffe

I think definitely more super league cricket and for the pipeline to be stronger, and for us women to get paid as well as what men get paid.

Saarah Smith

My favorite superhero is Wonder Woman. I love how sweet and caring she is. And the movie was so amazing, like her weapons and how she fights.

Faithe Herman

[T]he private detective, with his mocking smile and cold wit, his chivalry, his magic appeal to women, his Charvet ties...

Martha Gellhorn Point of no return (1948)

militarism, the destroyer of youth, the raper of women, the annihilator of the best in the race, the very mower of life.

Emma Goldman Preparedness, the Road to Universal Slaughter (1915)

I like Liz Phair, but there were these stupid women reviewers who said she's surpassing the Stones. Dream on.

Camille Paglia Playboy interview (1995)

If you're a woman who doesn't know how to write, you're going to cry every night. But if you do, no problem.

Molly Shannon

The people considered the most in need of protection were women and children. The sex considered most disposable was men – or males....

Warren Farrell Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)

Surprisingly, it is not like they say: "In this or in that country", no. There are beautiful women in every country.

Luis Miguel

The era of Conceptual art - which was also the era of the Civil Rights Movement,. Vietnam, the Women's Liberation Movement, and the counter-culture- was a real.

Lucy R. Lippard Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 (1973)

It was remarked in England that women did much to abolish slavery in her colonies. Nor are they now idle.

Angelina Grimké Speech at Pennsylvania Hall (1838)

A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life. (p190)

Louise Erdrich The Antelope Wife (1998)

And women, you know... Women want a man. That’s what I envision. Who the hell wants to walk around with someone that’s prettier than you if you’re a woman?

Johnny Messner

I am happy to be back at the Women’s 5k Challenge...Last year (2009) I lost in a sprint finish but this time I will be stronger at the end.

Linet Masai

I had three late miscarriages and one early and that took a long while to recover from. Some women have children with serious disabilities.

Faith Osier

So this is just the beginning. I'm the beginning of women's boxing in the country.

Pearl Morake The first fruit of women's boxing (2012)

People were not used to seeing women in public meetings talking just like male politicians do. They realised that women can talk back.

Anna Abdallah

There is discrimination in Kenya, contrary to the United Nations convention for the elimination of discrimination against women, which Kenya ratified in 1984.

Wambui Otieno

Allows us to once again, make a bold national statement about the value we place on women leadership

Cécile La Grenade

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