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.
Men and women in their mutual attraction are driven to the very emptiness they are trying to avoid.
Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women.
A woman's exterior beauty is a reflection of her internal peace and happiness.
It is thought that women inspire by their beauty; more often they do so by their longings.
There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.
Woman's flirtatious arts of self-concealment mean man's approach must take the form of rape.
I think it is one of the greatest pictures ever taken of a woman.
Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.
No, no; women, old or young, should never have to think about money.
China is not to be won for Christ by quiet ease-loving men and women.
Women see through and through each other; and often we most admire her whom they most scorn.