Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness.
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.
Does the imagination dwell the most
Upon a woman won or woman lost?
In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.
An erection is the most flattering compliment a man can pay to an older woman.
Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.
I've seen these women all my life, I know how they walk, I know how they talk...
Few men can do more than touch the fringes of a woman's satisfaction.
The woman wants to dominate, the man wants to be dominated[.]
"Why must there be war?" "Oh Lavinia, what a woman's question that is! Because men are men."