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 Copy Share Image
If you really do want to increase women's status, you could focus on just that, but you'd probably better focus also on… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
China had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
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… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“A humour of reading books, except those of devotion or housewifery, is apt to turn a woman's brain... All affectation of knowledge… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“I wou'd therefore exhort all my sex (...) to betake themselves to the improvement of their minds (...) and (...) shew our… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“What women want as a class is irrelevant. I want to know about Aristotle. It is true that most women care nothing… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image