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 hope to have a body of work on women, children and religion.
Society has never been kind to those who grow old, especially women.
Men are only afraid, and it is a shame on the men to be afraid of women.
Women are not inferior to men and should not be treated as such.
"Cultural norms that women cannot be innovators are barriers that I face every day."
Going beyond the culture norms that women too can be innovators is a barrier I face every day.
Man delights not me: no, nor woman neither, though, by your smiling, you seem to say so.