A woman needs a stronger head than is her own for counsel — she should marry.
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.
Devils are not so black as they be painted, ... nor women so wayward as they seem.
I can spot a musical type. I can tell by looking at a woman whether she is a contralto or a soprano.
Doubt not a woman's hardihood; no danger is too great for wedded love to face.
Here are a great many women, but a real, true woman is not found amongst them.
One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.
If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.