Quotes About Female Education

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. TV's influence on gender attitudes, social advancement, and fertility rates was equivalent to the impact of an extra five years of female education.

Deborah Blum

#4. 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

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

Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Adolf Hitler

#7. 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

#8. ,,,we forget our good actions only slowly, and in fact never truly forget them.

Machado De Assis

#9. My grandmother was very important to me. She gave me my religious education. She gave me a sense of the female side of Judaism, of the rich store of stories and legends of the women of the schtetl.

Marge Piercy

#10. We walked through the streets with our protectors. We wore our dresses. We gave up our education because that was the price of safety. That was the bargain we made with the devil we knew to escape the devil we didn't.

C.J. Redwine

#11. It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

Agnes Repplier

#12. The right of education of the female sex, as it is in a manner everywhere neglected, so it ought to be generally lamented. Most in this depraved later age think a woman learned and wise enough if she can distinguish her husband's bed from another's.

Hannah Woolley

#13. We're social creatures, so we think socially.

Clive Thompson

#14. I spoke of the irony of the Taliban wanting female teachers and doctors for women yet not letting girls go to school to qualify for these jobs

Malala Yousafzai

#15. It was hard to get jobs on farms doing wool-classing, but I got them. They had to learn to like a female wool-classer.

Theresa Sjoquist

#16. Rather than majoring in frivolities, women should be educated in useful subjects and 'be furnished with a stock of ideas, and principles, and qualifications, and habits, ready to be applied and appropriated ... ' - Hannah More

Karen Swallow Prior

#17. I was the least impressed with, a woman who thought Henry Miller was a police sitcom from the seventies.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#18. With the possible exception of steampunk aficionados, many reasonable people must view my fascination with Victorian and Edwardian popular fiction - mysteries, fantasy, and adventure - as eccentric or merely antiquarian.

Michael Dirda

#19. He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself ... is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.

Chanakya

#20. I cannot wait for all the mistakes we have yet to make

Devendra Banhart

#21. Scoring high in procreation, got an A studying female anatomy.

Alice Cooper

#22. I wrote this book for the Nelson Mandela's of our communities who are willing to stand up for change and people who are oppressed or suppressed from fulfilling their life's purpose

Sahndra Fon Dufe

#23. I never had a single female professor throughout my whole education, from the beginning of university to the end. Even all the books were about men; I never really liked reading books about the history of science, and I never really understood why.

Margaret Geller

#24. Angels are all around us - everywhere and
omnipresent. I consider them to be proof that God loves us, wants to protect us, and that he is always there.

Catherine Carrigan

#25. Lady Bracknell: Is this Miss Prism a female of repellent aspect, remotely connected with education?
Chasuble: (Somewhat indignantly) She is the most cultivated of ladies, and the very picture of respectability.
Lady Bracknell: It is obviously the same person.

Oscar Wilde

#26. Education for women is something that has plagued the world for a very long time. When I saw this problem firsthand, I knew I had to write about it.

Sahndra Fon Dufe

#27. I don't think people have made staples by hand since the fifteenth century.

Lemony Snicket

#28. If you recieved a nickel for every act of your kindness and had to pay a nickel for every act of your negativity and cruelty, would you be a man of wealth? or poverty?

Anonymous

#29. I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means.

William Hazlitt

#30. Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

Bertrand Russell

#31. I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

Michel De Montaigne