Female Education Quotes

• I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to live in peace. Their right to be treated with dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right to be educated.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Inspiring, Opportunity, Equality

  Malala Yousafzai's Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

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• The highest result of education is tolerance.

  Helen Keller

  Forgiveness, Education, Teacher

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.99, Courier Corporation

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• The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions. But nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  "Malala Yousafzai: 'Our books and our pens are the most powerful weapons'". Speech at the United Nations, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2013.

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• Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Weakness, Hopelessness, Born

  "Malala Up Close: A Heroine And A Joking Teenager". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. October 2, 2015.

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• The goal of female education must invariably be the future mother.

  Adolf Hitler

  Mother, History, Goal

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.

  Frances Harper

  Two, Perfect, Soul

  Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frances Smith Foster (1990). “A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader”, p.109, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them a solid education which might enable them, when become mothers, to educate their own daughters, and even to direct the course for sons, should their fathers be.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Daughter, Mother, Educational

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.247, Hackett Publishing

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• To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.

  Edith Hamilton

  Education, Learning, Curiosity

  Quoted in the Saturday Evening Post, 27 Sep 1958.

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• Bombay is far ahead of Bengal in the matter of female education. I have visited some of the best schools in Bengal and Bombay, and I can say from my own experience that there are a larger number of girls receiving public education in Bombay than in Bengal; but while Bengal has not come up to Bombay as far as regarded extent of education, Bengal is not behind Bombay in the matter of solidarity and depth.

  Keshub Chandra Sen

  Girl, School, Numbers

  Speech delivered at the East India Association, London, May 13, 1870.

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• Even in areas like the most depressed region of India in terms of female education, namely Rajasthan, which has [one of] the lowest female literacy [rates] in India. Even there, 80 to 90 percent of the parents would like their girls to go to school. And indeed, about 80 percent would like them to be made compulsory.

  Amartya Sen

  Girl, School, Parent

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• ... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Romantic, Education, Mean

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1997). “The Vindications: The Rights of Men and The Rights of Woman”, p.194, Broadview Press

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• The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

  Harriet Martineau

  Thinking, America, Training

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.158

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• In light of the strong correlation between female education and demographic decline, a purely empirical perspective on Malala Yousafzai, the poster girl for global female education, may indicate that the Taliban's attempt to silence her was perfectly rational and scientifically justifiable.

  Theodore Beale

  Girl, Strong, Light

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