Able Quote by Amartya Sen

There is a reason you keep hearing about the power of educating girls in the developing world. It's a reason so simple that you…

— Richard E. Robbins

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian…

— Daniel Defoe

Young women can be particularly hampered by a lack of female teachers, since they may not feel as comfortable in classes taught by men.…

— Tae Yoo

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

— Amartya Sen

Somehow we have been taught to believe that the experiences of girls and women are not important in the study and understanding ofhuman behavior.…

— Jeanne Elium (20th Century

“The formal education of women was rarely considered important. Girls of good birth were taught domestic skills at home or in a convent, and…

— Alison Weir

My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the…

— Annie Lennox

At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of…

— William John Wills

There's an ingrained mentality in our culture that women aren't as good. Other places, it doesn't exist.

— Rachel Riley

In many developing countries, girls don't go to school. They stay home. They are at the water wells, bringing water back and forth to…

— Laura Bush

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual…

— Mary Augusta Ward

In India, women are respected the most. Mothers, wives, sisters, daughters.

— Bappi Lahiri