The girl slept on, motionless, in that curled-up looseness achieved by some women and all cats.
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.
Will Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.
The two divinest things this world has got,
A lovely woman in a rural spot!
I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
Secrets with girls, like loaded guns with boys,
Are never valued till they make a noise.
Whoever embarks with a woman embarks with a storm; but they are themselves the safety boats.
Seek to be good, but aim not to be great;
A woman’s noblest station is retreat.
A woman's notes will not signify much truly, no more than her tongue.
Women are most adorable when they are afraid; that's why they frighten so easily.
Nor is it proper or safe that all the keys of the kingdom should hang at the girdle of a woman.
It is cruel for a woman with her man gone,
An' the younguns allus hungry, an' winter comin' on.
A ship is sooner rigged by far, than a gentlewoman made ready.
Where a woman has loved most, there she will soonest avenge herself.
Woman's intuition is the result of millions of years of not thinking.
Defiant love sonnets
demanding nude joys
lure girls to be naughty
and live like the boys.
The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.