Top 100 Women Education Quotes

#1. Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

Isabel Allende

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#2. The young (Somali) women were very inquisitive as to European customs, and listened attentively to descriptions of the manners, education, and clothes of white ladies, as if out to complete their strategic education with the knowledge of how the males of an alien race were conquered and subdued.

Karen Blixen

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#3. Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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#4. Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.

Sam Harris

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#5. Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

Angelina Grimke

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#6. It is true that I opposed quotas in employment, education, and other areas. I consider quotas, whether they favor blacks or whites, men or women, to be a new form of discrimination as bad as the old ones.

Ronald Reagan

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#7. We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

Arthur Ashe

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

William Hazlitt

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#9. Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the absence of rights. We must not forget that the subjection of women is so complete, and dates from such ages back that we are often unwilling to recognise the gulf that separates them from us.

Leo Tolstoy

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#10. From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.

Zainab Salbi

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#11. But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.

Lord Byron

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#12. Oprah Winfrey's global influence is unparalleled. Not only has her generosity and firm belief that education is the key to a better life benefited countless women and children around the world, but her example has also inspired millions of people to give back in ways big and small.

Eli Broad

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

Jane Goodall

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#14. A truly educated man never ceases to learn. He never ceases to grow. I hope you women, as you take upon yourselves the burden of rearing families, will never set aside the desire to acquire knowledge.

Gordon B. Hinckley

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#15. What the deuse do we men go to school for? If our wits were equal to women's, we might spare much time and pains in our education: for nature teaches your sex, what, in a long course of labour and study, ours can hardly attain to.

Samuel Richardson

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#16. If there were no women then men would still be living in the jungle.

Debasish Mridha

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#17. I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.

Angela Merkel

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#18. There are millions of women who are trapped in lower-paying jobs and don't have the skills for a higher-paying job, and don't have the money or the time to access the higher education that they need for a better job.

Marco Rubio

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#19. So I am a Socialist," said Ingleby, "but I can't stand this stuff about Old Dumbletonians. If everybody had the same State education, these things wouldn't happen." "If everybody had the same face," said Bredon, "there'd be no pretty women.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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#20. If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.

Harri Holkeri

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#21. Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but to allow for different modes of education, for situation and constitution, or perhaps I should rather say, for habits, whether good or bad.

Samuel Richardson

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#22. The education of all beautiful women is the knowledge of men.

F Scott Fitzgerald

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#23. I never can imagine that a woman can do anything wrong, if they do then man made her to do it.

Debasish Mridha

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#24. Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.

Adora Svitak

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#25. The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.

Malala Yousafzai

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#26. The fact was that I had always been considered a leader in my scholastic career. It just never dawned on me that this was any kind of preparation for the business world. Like most young women of my background and education, I always performed on demand and never anything else.

Geraldine Stutz

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#27. She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the woman of the world is a woman; the rest are simply females.

Edmond De Goncourt

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#28. Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming.

Paulo Freire

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#29. The key to the trap is, of course, education. The feminine mystique has made higher education for women seem suspect, unnecessary and even dangerous. But I think that education, and only education, has saved, and can continue to save, American women from the greater dangers of the feminine mystique.

Betty Friedan

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#30. Educated people can make their own choices about their governments. And certainly for women, an education allows you to understand your rights.

Laura Bush

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#31. Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves.

Gloria Steinem

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#32. Women dream a lot and man is the prince of that dream land.

Debasish Mridha

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#33. Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education; the more people know,
the more their ideas are expanded by travel, experience, and observation,
the less easily they are shocked. The narrowness and bigotry of women are the result of their circumscribed sphere of thought and action.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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#34. 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

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#35. Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.

Robert Owen

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#36. Most often women want happiness and men want wilderness.

Debasish Mridha

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#37. I decided I had to find out if it was my scene or not. So I stepped in at the deep end. It leads you to survive or drown. Very often you survive.

Theresa Sjoquist

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#38. With a mind as bright as yours you will want to find a proper school to continue your education ... You must continue the education your mother began. Young women must have an education.

Gloria Whelan

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#39. 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

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#40. Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.

Anna Garlin Spencer

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#41. In Pakistan, when we were stopped from going to school, at that time I realized that education ... Is the power for women, and that's why the terrorists are afraid of education

Malala Yousafzai

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#42. If he could not restore her to the status of a respectable woman, then Sohrab would make her into something else entirely, something hitherto unknown in their entire extended family, an educated woman, a professional woman.

Jasmin Darznik

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#43. I have this thought, it's horrible, and it makes me sick, but it's true: one day these students will grow up and have their own kids, and they're going to name them for men and women who will die in this war.

Tucker Elliot

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#44. I believe, as they say, that you can't be what you don't see, and since I saw a lot of smart women in my life, education being at the center, I just mimicked that behavior.

Eva Longoria

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#45. A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.

Millicent Fawcett

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#46. A woman always wants to change her man but a man wants her to be unchanged.

Debasish Mridha

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#47. The majority of our polities, as Aristotle says, are like the Cyclops, abandoning the guidance of the women and children to each individual man according to his mad and injudicious ideas: hardly any, except the polities of Sparta and of Crete, have entrusted the education of children to their laws.

Michel De Montaigne

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#48. I hope that I inspire women to believe in themselves, no matter where they come from; no matter what education they have; what particular background they originate from.

Madonna Ciccone

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#49. Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too.

Suzanne Fields

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#50. By undercutting fundamentalism and intolerance, education would curtail violence and war. By empowering women, it would curb poverty and the population explosion.

John Brockman

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#51. I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

Alice Walker

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#52. [We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and energy can work for the best things regardless of their belief or disbelief in unimportant dogmas and ancient and outworn creeds.

W.E.B. Du Bois

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#53. Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.

Harriet Martineau

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#54. If on one day we find the fast-spreading recognition of popular rights accompanied by a silent, growing perception of the rights of women, we also find it accompanied by a tendency towards a system of non-coercive education
that is, towards a practical illustration of the rights of children.

Herbert Spencer

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#55. When women gain control over spending, less family money is devoted to instant gratification and more for education and starting small businesses.

Sheryl WuDunn

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#56. 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

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

Amartya Sen

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#58. Single women that place high value on Higher Education are often the brunt of snide remarks and smearing put downs by less educated black man ... page 126

Deborrah Cooper

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#59. Women often forget that the man she is complaining about is a creation of a mother like her.

Debasish Mridha

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#60. Women and girls are disproportionately affected by landmines. They have different needs when it comes to education about risks. And they may face greater challenges when a family member is killed or injured.

Ban Ki-moon

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#61. The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.

Sandra Day O'Connor

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#62. All civilized wo/men are prostitutes: Some sell what's between their legs; the rest sell what's between their ears.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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#63. As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.

Naveen Jain

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#64. If we create a generation of men who aren't getting an education, that's bad for women.

Michael Gurian

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#65. Studies demonstrate that as gaps are being closed between men and women - in access to education, in health, even in economic participation - the most difficult gap to close is in political participation. Somehow that sharing of raw power, political power, remains very illusive.

Melanne Verveer

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#66. Young women who want an education will not be stopped

Freida Pinto

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#67. One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.

Ellen Swallow Richards

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#68. No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

William Law

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#69. In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

Albert Einstein

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#70. I remember my grandfather believed women were second-class citizens and told my mother that it was a shame she had brains because she was a girl and shouldn't carry on her education.

Sarah Gavron

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#71. It was the women of afghanistan,my mother believed,who-once they'd been granted access to books and education- would be the salvation of the country

Will Schwalbe

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#72. It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and women.

Henry David Thoreau

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#73. No-one has the right to terminate a person's life with a gun, a knife, or a makutu (spell).

Theresa Sjoquist

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#74. I have seen the transformative effect that education has in the lives of young women and their communities.

Ann Cotton

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#75. In 1946 there was no money in art, no dealer galleries, no craft shops. After the war we started to teach art in every school for the first time. Our generation played a crucial role. We were the stepping stones towards today's galleries.

Theresa Sjoquist

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#76. I guess what I would tell women is to get their education first, before having kids. That way they can keep their options open down the road. I also think that it shouldn't necessarily be an issue just for women, that men should be part of the stay-home discussion too.

Tina Fey

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#77. I didn't go to high school, I didn't go to college, I didn't have women's studies. All of my feminist ideals and education have been built around art and my friends and community. And so it's still growing.

Kathleen Hanna

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#78. I'd gone to Wellesley College, an amazing women's college where the students were encouraged to follow our dreams. However, after I graduated and had a historical romance published, more than a few people indicated that, in some way, my career choice was a 'waste' of so much education.

Lisa Kleypas

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#79. 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

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#80. The victimisation, I saw, was universal. It didn't depend on poverty, on lack of education or on tradition. It didn't depend on any of the things I had thought it depended on. Men took it everywhere with them.

Tsitsi Dangarembga

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#81. In the sex education process in schools, the one thing that they teach about is how to get pregnant and how to not get pregnant. But they don't really talk about sex as a point of pleasure for women.

Ashton Kutcher

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#82. Speaking as a biologist, I think women are less aggressive than men, and they play a larger role in the early education of the young and helping them overcome their genetic heirloom.

Christian De Duve

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#83. Ladies, it is not your education, status or personality that has brought you here but the elegance of God which was still and still working upon you.

Angela Merkel

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#84. The reason why education is usually so poor among women of fashion is, that it is not needed for the life which they elect to lead.

Julia Ward Howe

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#85. I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it ... but the women work most for it.

Frances Harper

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#86. Women most often have a difficult enemy and she is a woman and not a man.

Debasish Mridha

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#87. At present we educate people only up to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases altogether, as though a complete mental outfit had been acquired ... Vast numbers of men and women thus spend their entire lives in complete ignorance of the most important things.

Carl Jung

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#88. The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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#89. It is in our incompleteness, of which we are aware, that education as a permanent process is grounded. Women and men are capable of being educated only to the extent that they are capable of recognizing themselves as unfinished.

Paulo Freire

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#90. The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.

Dan Shechtman

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#91. There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women.

Julie Walters

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#92. From Hunayn ibn-Ishak (Diogenes,8), we learn about his view of women and education: when he saw a man teaching a girl how to read and write, he advised him not to make a bad thing even worse.

Luis E. Navia

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#93. When women earn more, families are stronger, and children have better access to quality health care and education.

Kirsten Gillibrand

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#94. The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

Basmah Bint Saud

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#95. Are you keeping up your good studies at school and working as hard as you always did?

Diane Samuels

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#96. You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

Brigham Young

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#97. It is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.

Hannah More

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#98. I hope that here in America more and more the ideal of the well-trained and vigorous body will be maintained neck by neck with that of the well-trained and vigorous mind as the two coequal halves of the higher education for men and women alike.

William James

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#99. The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

Samuel Richardson

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#100. The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery.

Frederick Lenz

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