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.
Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.
Dignity and self-assurance are everything to a woman, especially a naked one.
Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.
A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young, not her face.
The Woman in us, still prosecutes a deceit, like that begun in the Garden.
A faire woman is a paradise to the eye, a purgatorye to the purse, and a hell to the soule.
A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.
More women are wooed for their complexions than for their characters.
All women are, in some degree, poets in imagination, angels in hearts, and diplomatists in mind.
Give God thy broken heart, He whole will make it:
Give woman thy whole heart, and she will break it.
Women have been called queens a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.