Ancient egyptian Quote by Bettany Hughes

Women enjoyed rights in Egypt they would not again enjoy for more than 2,000 years. They owned ships, ran vineyards, filed lawsuits, practiced medicine.…

— Stacy Schiff

I'm not an encyclopedia of ancient Egyptian history, but women did hold positions of status in ancient Egypt. Obviously, famously, people like Nefertiti and…

— Josh Gates

“for in contrast to the restrictions imposed on respectable Greek women who only went out of the house as a last resort and even…

— Joann Fletcher

The Egyptian society needs to include its women if it wants to have economic prosperity.

— Christine Lagarde

Egyptian women are tied down by a heritage of traditional values in their view of the world.

— Anonymous

Cleopatra had one great advantage. She lived at a time when female sovereigns were not anomalies. And when women enjoyed rights they would not…

— Stacy Schiff

Women didn't have rights. Under British common law, women were property.

— Noam Chomsky

“Today there is a place called Egypt, but the Egyptian people are not masters there; long since they have been broken by conquest, and…

— Will Durant

“from its beginning, Egypt was a densely settled agricultural community. Its soil was rich, and because farming necessarily ceased during the months of the…

— Norman F. Cantor

“But Egyptian men would do well to learn that they should treat others as they would be treated themselves. For many of them, too,…

— John R. Bradley

“Customs of the Egyptians.       Chapter I. Concerning The Kings And”

— Charles Rollin

I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any…

— Hillary Clinton