A woman needs a man in her life. There are things a man would do that you cannot do as a woman.
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.
Look at the lattice above
For a pretty wonder,—
Down to the necklet—a girl,
But a woman under.
Don't, you know, as the French say, there are three sexes—men, women, and clergymen?
I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.
Thou, while thy babes around thee cling,
Shalt show us how divine a thing
A Woman may be made.
With the Muslim conquest the position of Indian women suffered a set-back.
It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.
The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.