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.
“It’s [an] opportunity to open the door and to show that all African [women] are capable.”
I challenge you to ensure that the women who work here truly enjoy what they do.
As a woman, when you're promoted, you have to deliver twice as much.
We want to see women who occupy all political positions at all levels.
The invaluable contribution of women should multiply twice or thrice.
Reduction in the cost of nomination forms as a measure to encourage greater women involvement.
Actually in most countries, women wish to get half of what Rwanda has.
"I want to be an example of a Black woman who succeeded on her own, against all odds."