Pregnant women and Vietnam vets, beggin on the freeway, bout as hard as it gets.
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.
Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply - I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.
The position of women in the [civil-rights] movement is prone.
I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans.
I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.
Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
As women, we need to examine the ways in which our world can be truly different.
There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.
I cannot think of a system of law that dehumanizes & degrades women more than Islamic Law.
We feminists think that women deserve the right NOT to prostitute.
For many women, the experience of prostitution stems from the historical trauma of colonization.