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.
He who has a good woman's love is ashamed of every ill deed.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
Nothing inspires more courage in a woman than fearlessness in the man she loves.
Don’t buy into the idea that women aren’t strong enough to do anything they want on their own.
If the child was helpless, was the grown up person, man or woman, in a much better position?
If you don’t love your fellow man, women, person, then you don’t have anything.
The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere for either man or woman.
Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it.
A woman after having parted with her virtue will hesitate at nothing.
Any religion which sacrifices women to the brutality of men is no religion.
Feminists have no idea that some women like to flirt with danger because there is a sizzle in it.
Love is the whole history of a woman's life; it is an episode in a man's.
Reforms are made, important ones' but the status of women relative to men does not change.