Only women think there is a reason to thank people if they listen to them.
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.
I didn't want to be a woman artist, I just wanted to be an artist.
I never saw such a place for merched anllad [wanton women] as Northampton.
Only when a woman shares male risks can she really begin to understand men.
The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.
Unemployment to a man is the psychological equivalent of rape to a woman.
Men are not only women's unpaid bodyguards, they actually pay to be a woman's bodyguard.
One grand fallacy of the women's movement: Expecting work to mean "power" and "self-fulfillment."
Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women.
The most frequent way men are raped by adult women is "birth control rape."
The gap in sentencing is six times greater for men versus women than it is for blacks versus whites.