Women and cats do what they do; there is nothing a man can do about it.
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.
It’s not a weapon or a woman can make a man, or magery either, or any power, anything but himself.
Men may control the free world, but women control the boobs.
Thus woman trusts in man down all the years and so, as always, is betrayed.
He knew less about women than he knew about the physics of hyperspace.
“Believe nothing,” Apolline advised. “This woman wouldn’t know the truth if it fucked her.”
It is a woman's nature to be constant — to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever.
Contract killings never get recorded as a woman killing a man.
After a divorce, men’s biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women’s is poverty).
The world belongs to women.
In other words, to death.
But everyone lies about it.