The cruelest revenge of a woman is to remain faithful to a man.
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.
A woman does not need to adorn herself underneath for her husband, young sir.
Black feminists speak as women because we are women and do not need others to speak for us.
Nine, nine... There have been nine men there for a long, long time, right? So why not nine women?
The use of the atomic bomb with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.
The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.
Brave, unconcerned, mocking, violent—thus wisdom wants us: she is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
Once a woman has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her.