The male-female pay gap is not a gap between men and women; it is a gap between moms and dads.
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.
When your son has sex with a woman, he puts his life in her hands.
If the life of a beloved woman—whether romantic partner or mother—is at risk, his life is at risk.
Even if your son tries to use his power to save a woman, if he fails, that power will implode.
There is almost no difference in the percentage of men versus women experiencing depression.
How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?
It is only a plain tale of plain people told in the plain dialect of a plain old woman.
Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.
It is the custom of all men, everywhere, to be obtuse where women are concerned.
Men are virtuous because the women are; women are virtuous from necessity.
A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.
"You are a smart man, Ira, but sometimes I think you do not understand women very well."