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.
"But now women will be a majority on the committees that were controlled by men."
As a black woman, black people, you’re not supposed to crumble.
Don’t booze too much, don’t take drugs, don’t rape women — only for love or for money as they say.
When on me devotion do women and folks flippant shower, then know they are in wisdom’s bower.
Feminism is not an ‘ism’ that belongs to women only, but a way of looking at the world.
Science is not that difficult, it’s just a myth, women are as good as men.
"Sing until the city becomes a women's song; Until this homeland, becomes a home-land."