An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.
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.
Lord Chesterfield designated ugly women as the third sex; how shall we place ugly men.
Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.
Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
A woman of honor should not suspect another of things she would not do herself.
There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.
There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.
There is no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.
Self-reliance is demanded in woman; the supreme fall of falls is the first doubt of one’s self.
The oyster-women lock’d their fish up,
And trudged away to cry, No Bishop.
Women oppose change, receive passively, and add nothing of their own
We men are but poor, weak souls, after all; women beat us out and out in fortitude.
Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt—just a little?