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Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them.

— Ellen Goodman

The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the…

— Samuel Smiles

All women, whatever be their position, should demand political equality as a means of a freer life, and one calculated to yield rich blessings…

— Clara Zetkin

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

— Laurence J. Peter

When institutions are endowed to train women for all departments connected with the family state, domestic labor, now so shunned and disgraced, will become…

— Catharine Beecher

There is much that women can bring into politics that would make our world a kinder, gentler place for humanity to thrive in.

— Corazon Aquino

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and…

— Phyllis McGinley

Women with education, skills, and independent sources of income are more able to withstand the pressures of the patriarchal family and more able to…

— Deeyah Khan

“The education of women, for instance, would naturally be regarded as likely to be harmful, but the government opens schools and universities for women."…

— Anton Chekhov

Education, leading to financial independence, has surely made women more empowered.

— Sudha Murty

“Women were responsible for raising next generation of citizens, they themselves needed to be well educated in order to teach their children. She never…

— Lynne Withey

Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty.

— Ban Ki-moon