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.
I found myself face to face with an old woman who circumcised me
I sympathize with women, I sympathize with my mother and grandmother and I sympathize with myself
I was brought up by women, and strong and wise women continue to inspire me
Sonia Umulinga is empowering women and fighting plastic pollution in Rwanda KURA (May 3, 2023)
Woman is a ray of God, not a mere mistress,
The Creator’s self as it were, not a mere creature!