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.
My Administration will be great for women and their reproductive rights.
Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
“Women shouldn’t be in combat,” said Vorkosigan, grimly glum.
“Neither should men, in my opinion.”
All women love a good geek, and those who tell you otherwise are lying.
It is just such women, selfish, sweet, false, that entice fools.
“Is it different, then, for men and for women?”
“What isn’t, dearie?”
God assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman.