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 underestimated you, woman." ... "The cry of men down the ages."
If a woman does not get love in her life, it is better for her to die.
It will yet be the proud boast of woman that she never contributed a line to the Bible.
Misogyny is absolutely wrong whether it's a man against a woman or a woman against a man.
Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.
I wanted to dispel the myth that we as women cannot do what men can.