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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.

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You may name a bronze statue Liberty, or a painted figure in a city hall Commerce, or a marble form in a temple Athene or Venus; but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman.

George Edward Woodberry

This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

Adam

The basic mistake in eyery case is made by those women who consider 'freedom of abortion' as one of their civil rights. We need new fighters - they built this life, we need people.

Nikolai Krylenko

Jimmy Kimmel is a total jerk. It seems that his trend is to attack women.

Matt Gaetz

I think that women are wonderful but I've never met one yet who didn't show more feeling than logic.

Hermann Göring

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

Norman Mailer The Presidential Papers (1963)

The women who changed the world never needed to show anything other than their own intelligence.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Miss Daw said, half to herself, “Now you have had your first lesson in what it is like to be a real grown-up woman in a man’s world, my dear. We are judged by our looks, and men are not.”

John C. Wright Orphans of Chaos (2005)

On the other hand, society does not see anything wrong with a man who has more relationships, they are viewed as champions while we (women) are called names so I am zipping my mouth now.

Yvonne Okoro

Not every man is greater than every woman, nor every woman inferior to every man.

Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi

Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.

W. L. George The Intelligence of Woman (1916)

She was making money. But she could not get over the idea that to earn her living was somewhat undignified, and she was inclined to remind you that she was a lady by birth.

W. Somerset Maugham The Moon and Sixpence (1919)

It's better not to argue with women.

Vladimir Putin

I'm not for women, frankly, in any job. I don't want any of them around. Thank God we don't have any in the Cabinet.

Richard Nixon The Rehnquist Choice (2001)

Women should not be allowed on juries where the accused is a stud.

Rush Limbaugh

You testified this morning, in response to Senator Biden, that the most embarrassing question involved — and this is not too bad — women’s large breasts. That is a word we use all the time.

Arlen Specter

If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.

Bob Dole

A Jewish woman in exile in the 1930s is an antihero.

Núria Añó

I am proud to be a woman and a feminist.

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex

Tradition has developed into practices which overtime have become beliefs which in essence they put women in a position of inferiority.

Graça Machel Graca Machel: Traditional practices put women in positions of inferiority (2009)

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