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.
Women could be politicians if they were willing to work and sacrifice.
Equatorial Guinean women welcomed the creation of this department with joy.
The media must invite women leaders for gender representation, instead of the usual ‘boys choir’.
I believe in their hearts, women are seeking some form of liberation.
Women like balls and assemblies, as a hunter likes a place where game abounds.
Women have to be willing to work and produce, and not just expect favors because they are women.
Duty, that grey ash of a burnt-out fire,
That lie between a woman and a man!
If a woman is there and is competent, she opens the door for others.
“My business is all about making sure that all black women feel comfortable in their own skin.”