You are martyred, as woman is ever martyred, particularly if she seeks her own power.
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.
The dress of a woman of Lhassa,
in its place
is an invisible element of that place
made visible.
In every premenstrual woman struggling to govern her temper, sky-cult wars again with earth-cult.
It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal.
'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.
Women do not know how to be women exactly; men constantly fail to be men.
Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power?
Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
Sometimes counting seconds is a great way to kill time through a woman's tantrums.