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 hate a clever woman. I would have no woman in my house that knows more than a woman should.
Hail, thou art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
A woman is like a tea bag. You don't know its strength until it's in hot water.
Ah! beauteous maid,
Of form so fair!
Pearl of the world,
Beloved and dear!