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 experience numerous contradictions as they undergo social change.
Women shouldn’t be left behind when talking about research and science that Africa need.
I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
Of woman's unnatural, insatiable lust, what country, what village doth not complain?
Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.
A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.