She was a sharp-jawed, pout-lipped maiden and her eyes were green as scum.
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.
Disguise our bondage as we will,
'Tis woman, woman rules us still.
Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed;
For what I will, I will, and there an end.
She came forward like a film star, or rather like the ideal woman in an adolescent’s dream.
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.