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.
There's a woman like a dewdrop, she's so purer than the purest.
Women who want to be up there must work for it.It is not a joke, you must show that you can do it."
A man can sometimes hold his own with one woman, but never with two.
Through all the drama — whether damned or not —
Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
Howiver, I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.