Women's Education Quotes

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  Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

  Nora Ephron

  Life, Inspiring, Encouraging

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Jun 26, 2012

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  If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

  Abigail Adams

  Women, Memorable, Equality

  Letter to John Adams, 31 Mar. 1776 See Defoe 2

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• The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

  Betty Friedan

  Women, Equality, Creative

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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  Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Women, Mother And Daughter, Mind

  1792 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, pt.1, ch.2.

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• The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

  Bella Abzug

  Jobs, Women, Memorable

  Bella S. Abzug (1972). “Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington”, Saturday Review Press

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• A woman's education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stocking, never go out without a hat.

  Coco Chanel

  Two, House, Lessons

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• There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world.

  Amartya Sen

  World, Social, Women's Education

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• Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour on which this system still depends.

  Gloria Steinem

  Sex, Race, Differences

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• Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop.

  Jane Goodall

  Size, Increase, Women's Education

  "Jane Goodall Works To Help Humans, Too". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. February 12, 2010.

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• Women's education has a much greater impact [on], for example, fertility. Men's education, if our studies are correct, ha[s] almost no impact on fertility. Women's do. So, by the way, as a man, it's not to the glory of men specifically that it's women's education that reduces child mortality.

  Amartya Sen

  Children, Men, Impact

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children

  Amartya Sen

  Children, Literacy, Mortality

  Amartya Sen (2011). “Development as Freedom”, p.195, Anchor

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• China had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the one-child family.

  Amartya Sen

  Children, Expansion, Fertility

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Education, Weakness, Mediocrity

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• My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

  Antonia Fraser

  Mother, Doctors, Oxford

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• If you really do want to increase women's status, you could focus on just that, but you'd probably better focus also on women's education. Access to artificial contraception, I would say, is also a very important determinant of women's status.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Focus, Important, Want

  Source: www.neh.gov

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