Women's Education Quotes:

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

- Amartya Sen

topic: World, Social, Women's Education

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

- Nora Ephron

source: FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Jun 26, 2012

topic: Life, Inspiring, Encouraging, Self Determination, Powerful Women

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

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

topic: Women, Memorable, Law, Women's Suffrage, Determined Woman

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

source: BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

topic: Women, Creative, Way, Mystique, Creative Work

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft

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

topic: Women, Mother And Daughter, Mind, Women's Education, Women's Rights

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

- Bella Abzug

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

topic: Jobs, Women, Memorable, Women's Suffrage, Women Equality

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

- Coco Chanel

topic: Stockings, Women's Education

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

topic: Sex, Race, Differences, Women's Education, Women's Rights

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

- Jane Goodall

topic: Size, Increase, Planets, Women's Education

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

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Children, Men, Impact, Women's Education

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

- Amartya Sen

topic: Children, Literacy, Mortality, Women's Education

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

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Children, Expansion, Fertility, Women's Education

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

topic: Education, Weakness, Mediocrity, Women's Education

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

topic: Mother, Doctors, Oxford, Women's Education, Undergraduate

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

source: Source: www.neh.gov

topic: Focus, Important, Want, Women's Education