“Now that’s a fib, I know,” said the black woman. “Is you folks preachers?”
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.
They say the promise of a witch is like a plain woman, seldom remembered.
I'm told that some men heat their bath water by burning the love letters they get from women.
Today women in general are more likely to do the house work than men, the cooking and cleaning.
Women's History is indispensable and essential to the emancipation of women.
Why is it that the women and men who come in with the same background are assigned different jobs?
Humanity has its weaknesses, and woman is perhaps the weakness of man!
Boys, I’m afraid the way to a woman’s bed is often through her stomach.
We need men to look at what women can offer and to hand them the baton to thrive.
A world where women must remain naked until they are married; there are complications.