That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say No in any of 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've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
“The woman is the subtlest beast in the garden,” said Papa Moose, “now that snakes can’t talk.”
I am forced to conclude that being right has little to do with holding a woman’s affections.
Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.
She is a woman now, and not an idle girl, not a domestic ornament or a sexual convenience anymore.
A woman's pleasure is not dependent upon the presence of a penis in the vagina; neither is a man's.
Like it or not, women are always subject to criticism if they show too much feeling in public.
Women still live longer than men because their lives are easier.