Quotes About Women's Colleges

#1. The rule in the women's colleges was that after 7 p.m. all men were beasts. Up until 7 p.m. they were all angels, and the girls simply had to learn to live with that routine and practise love in the afternoon.

Harry Gordon Johnson

#2. Up until 1900, more than half the graduates from women's colleges remained single, many of them carving out careers in new fields such as social work.

Stephanie Coontz

#3. The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.

Mark Twain

#4. I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life.

Clive Bell

#5. I hear, "Yes,
Let us more education invest!"
Whilst destitute,
Outside their gates doth rest,
Women, children, and men,
Poor and a hungered!
Odd that colleges fill,
Yet mercy is numbered.

Kari L. Greenaway

#6. The state of Virginia had turned down twenty-one thousand women for admission to state colleges in 1970 while not turning away a single man ...

Meg Waite Clayton

#7. We didn't educate women, because the leaders then didn't think they were educable. That changed when a shortage of teachers developed, because men didn't get paid enough to teach school. Then men, who held the positions of power, sent women to teachers' colleges.

John Shelby Spong

#8. I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining.

Bjarne Stroustrup

#9. Women who earn a certificate or degree from a community college, especially in STEM-related field, will be ready to move into a good-paying job in the growing global economy. Community colleges also offer mentorship and support that goes far beyond the classroom.

Jill Biden

#10. Women's property has been taxed, equally with that of men's, to sustain colleges endowed by the states; but they have not been permitted to enter those high seminaries of learning.

Lucretia Mott

#11. When colleges, both within the Hudson Valley and throughout the country, encouraged women to do little beyond attaining their Mrs. degree in Husbandry, Annandale offered rigorous and prestigious degrees irrespective of gender.

Thomm Quackenbush

#12. It is too late in the century for women who have received the benefits of co-education in schools and colleges, and who bear theirfull share in the world's work, not to care who make the laws, who expound and who administer them.

Judith Ellen Foster

#13. You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!

Jennifer O'Neill

#14. If colleges and universities are really concerned about women's rights, then they must adjust to a far more flexible structure to allow young women students to take leaves of absence if they want to have children early.

Camille Paglia

#15. I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available.

Jeanine Tesori

#16. There's no good reason (and many bad reasons) colleges spend more time telling women how to survive predators than telling the other half of their students not to be predators.

Rebecca Solnit

#17. People think I'm selling feminism in my books, but what I'm really doing is writing advertising copy for expensive private colleges that most women can't afford anyway. Oh, and try to find a job with a major in English literature. No luck? Joke's on you, sucker!

Mary Gordon