If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void.
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 like fighting and women like men who are prepared to fight on their behalf.
Young women have more choices to make today about what to be. One of those choices is activist.
The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.
A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note.
There is a woman in every case; as soon as they bring me a report, I say, 'Look for the woman'.
Women run to extremes; they are either better or worse than men.
A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live, and I close my eyes.