When a woman reaches forty, she must wait twenty years for her husband to catch up.
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.
An attractive woman likes feminine company until she's twenty, and after she's twenty-five.
Most women would like to dress imaginatively, but they glare at any woman who does.
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
The greatest Heroes that the World can know,
To Women their Original must owe.
Woman is as light as a feather before the breeze. Her tone and thoughts are ever changing.
Her hand was small and had shape, not the usual bony garden tool you see on women nowadays.