Women are used by feminists; blacks are used by Democrats; workers are used by Communists.
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.
We need strong, educated women to help us build a better world.
Then let him swear he ne'er the lady knew,
And did with her as men with women do.
We teach females that in relationships, compromise is what women do.
Of all the sex this certain truth is known,
No woman yet was ever content with one.
It's not men's places that women claim, but their own place in a modern society.
Where comes a cow, there follows a woman; and where comes a woman follows trouble.
Women worldwide should unite for peace, friendly co-operation and development.
Women countrywide should embrace each other and avoid hate which will not take them anywhere.