Women 27s Education Quotes

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

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

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

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

I recognize no rights but human rights
I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights ... ~ Angelina Grimke

It is difficult for me to imagine the same dedication to women's rights on the part of the kind of man who lives in partnership with someone he likes and respects, and the kind of man who considers breast-augmentation surgery self-improvement. ~ Anna Quindlen

While women were tortured, drowned and burned by the thousands, scarce one wizard to a hundred was ever condemned ... The same distinction of sex appears in our own day. One code of morals for men, another for women. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered. ~ Sarah J. Buckley

Justice needs money; it always has ... whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil rights and environmental drives of our generation. ~ Ralph Nader

It is a man's world at the top, at the bottom, and in between. Men are in the catbird seat as far as income, opportunity, status, and power are concerned. This is the way it always has been and, as far as men are concerned, it is the way it always should be. ~ Joyce Brothers

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions. ~ Richard Le Gallienne

We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted. ~ Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world! ~ Eve Ensler

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind. ~ Mary Ritter Beard

It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world - a more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered. ~ Ida Tarbell

The course of human history consists of a series of encounters between individual human beings and God in which each man and woman or child, in turn, is challenged by God to make his free choice between doing God's will and refusing to do it. ~ Arnold J. Toynbee

White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage. ~ Carrie Chapman Catt

Woman's rights should come by evolution, and not by revolution. I want a little woman's right tried first, and then, if the experience is bad, we can go back on our track; if good, forward. ~ Joseph Cook

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive. ~ Marya Mannes

It's like suddenly in the Middle Ages, people figured men should be in charge of women's bodies since they were in charge of pretty much everything else ~ Inga Muscio

A woman's beauty lies, not in any exaggeration of the specialized zones, nor in any general harmony that could be worked out by means of the sectio aurea or a similar aesthetic superstition; but in the arabesque of the spine. The curve by which the back modulates into the buttocks. It is here that grace sits and rides a woman's body. ~ John Updike

Women's rights must not be the sacrifice by which peace is achieved, ~ Fawzia Koofi

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected. ~ Adrienne Rich

Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and activity should reach its fullest expression; all artificial barriers should be broken, and the road towards greater freedom cleared of every trace of centuries of submission and slavery. ~ Emma Goldman

The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time. ~ Friedrich Engels

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle. ~ Anthony Trollope

All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them. ~ Victoria Woodhull

Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too. ~ Will Rogers

The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman's body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that. ~ Debbie Allen

I hate Mother's Day. If anything, it's an affront to all women who think full-time moms have never worked a day in their lives. Which reminds me of a good joke: What do you call an angry feminist on Mother's Day? You don't. ~ Kimberly Guilfoyle

Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights. ~ Susan B. Anthony

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

It's okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women's health in the field of reproductive freedom, and the next stage would be bringing menopause out of the closet. ~ Cybill Shepherd

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain! ~ Anna Garlin Spencer

The real motivation of the campaign to criminalize abortion is to establish the principles that women's bodies belong to the state and that women bear the responsibility for sex. ~ Marilyn French

Dream the dreams that have never been dreamt. ~ David Bower

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers. ~ Cokie Roberts

I've delivered lots of babies, and I know about these things. It is true. We tell infertile couples all the time that are having trouble conceiving because of the woman not ovulating, 'Just relax. Drink a glass of wine. And don't be so tense and uptight because all that adrenaline can cause you not to ovulate.' So he was partially right wasn't he? But the fact that a woman may have already ovulated 12 hours before she is raped, you're not going to prevent a pregnancy there by a woman's body shutting anything down because the horse has already left the barn, so to speak. ~ Phil Gingrey

Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors. ~ Evelyn Cunningham

The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure. ~ Patty Duke

I love the Italian culture - it's a beautiful culture. I love the language, the Italian people, their music, their attitudes ... I just love it! Sometimes I think I'm an Italian trapped in a Spanish woman's body. ~ Penelope Cruz

True, the movement for women's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones. ~ Emma Goldman

Things are very rudimentary as far as women's rights really go here, and it seems fine, but once you start scraping the surface, you start to see the ripple effect of how not having equal rights is so detrimental and how many mothers are single parents trying to raise their families. ~ Patricia Arquette

Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper. ~ Christine De Pizan

I'm a gay man trapped in a woman's body. ~ Madonna Ciccone

This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life. ~ Kathleen Turner

It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices. ~ Linda Lingle