"Women need to be part of the solution, not just a part of the discussion."
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.
Only an insane woman would quit a marriage that is blissful and pleasurable.
Women are mostly mothers and directors are mostly children, so the two go very well together.
I am also looking forward to making impact on the lives of women.
Becoming a woman with disability opened my eyes to the challenges persons with disabilities face.
We have discovered that some women are scared because of the muddy water of politics.
"Kudirat believed strongly in supporting women’s economic empowerment."
For women, once your age exceeds your bra size, they take you off the air.