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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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It was mostly women comrades who carried logistical supplies. Men were there to guard them with guns

Paradzai Zimondi

A woman's prayer, how powerful it is in a man's life. If you get a woman on your side to pray for you, things can change in a different way

Kountry Wayne

Women in African society who have been revered have assumed roles men cannot, and then it is OK for them to be put on a pedestal

Senzeni Marasela

I hope visitors will take away a profound understanding of what it feels like to be a Rwandan woman 30 years after the genocide against the Tutsi

Kakizi Jemima

There were no cases on women’s human rights and cases that could have been about women’s human rights were not

Sibongile Ndashe

I literally had a woman come up to my table and burst into tears and go, 'Your performance helped me to walk away from a violent relationship.'

Rena Owen Rena Owen recalls heavy moments on set of Once Were Warriors (2025)

Born with them—born with them : all alike ! No pleasure equal to the pleasure of tormenting, to a woman.
Theresa

Letitia Elizabeth Landon Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

different women view different segments of the women's movement agenda as priority items.

Shirley Chisholm Speech to National Women's Political Caucus (1973)

I Take This Woman, with Spencer Tracy.

Hedy Lamarr Hubba, Hubba Hubba—It's Hedy! (1971)

Raggi: Has the fact that you are a woman been a crucial influence in your work? Aulenti: Yes.

Gae Aulenti

(on the Women's March:) "We are coming together with unity, not uniformity."

Abby Stein

I was afraid to say anything – and I have never been afraid of a boss before. I was an object. And the person doing this to me was another woman

Sipho Moyo

"Sometimes when I look at all the good that Rwanda is doing following the genocide, I think it is because they have women (in political office)"

Tebelelo Seretse

A whole press conference…. smh To silence and bully a woman for being vocal about paedophilia and other horrible practices in the industry I wish I was shocked.

Ego Boyo

second-wave feminism produced a bevy of writers determined not to abandon the public world to men, or to devalue the private world usually inhabited by women.

Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)

woman's sphere is the whole wide world.

Hannah G. Solomon

At last, we do have Native women representation in Congress.

Deb Haaland Interview with Democracy Now (2018)

For me then, every encounter with a woman is like suddenly finding myself in front of an abyss, and with my eyes blindfolded. (From One year later, p. 215)

Antonio Delfini

“Every woman is a SUPERHERO.”

Angel Locsin

It was massive that the crowd agreed with us because it was against the church. You just knew it resonated with women who thought "I needn’t get pregnant".

Nell McCafferty

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