My personal belief is that marriage is between one man and one woman, for life.
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.
How many, how omnipotent are the interests which engage men to break the mental chains of women!
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.
No matter what kind of verse a woman writes, nobody alive or dead deserves to be called a poetess.
She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
Man and woman cease to be humans
once they get lost into crowds.
Paris is like a pretty woman; when she gives you a smack, you don't smack back.
"When any of you wishes to demand a woman in marriage, if he can arrange it, let him see her first."