Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is — and a woman too, I guess.
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.
Each woman virtually summons every man to show cause why he doth not love her.
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women.
It is in the best interests of the human race, and of women themselves, for men to be strong.
My father warned me about men and booze, but he never mentioned a word about women and cocaine.
You, the woman; I, the man; this, the world:
And each is the work of all.
Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.
I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world!
Musique and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.