Give me few men and women who are pure and selfless and I shall shake the world.
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.
I never saw a more beautiful woman, enormous eyes, skin the color of Devonshire cream.
Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.
Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
Of all the paths lead to a woman's love
Pity's the straightest.
A woman whose ruling passion is not vanity, is superior to any man of equal faculties.
Godmongers have always found it easy to pay for their beliefs with women’s lives.…
I am a free woman who asserts her freedom by telling her story.
No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.