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For decades, universities have nurtured the most lunatic forms of feminism, denying the biological differences between males and females, promoting the idea that Western…

— Heather Mac Donald

“unmarried women make good academics because they’ve been neutered by too much knowledge and bookish pleasure. The world hands them a tiny domain it…

— Dominic Smith

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

The growing role of technology and professional courses in the universities must be tapped to encourage more women to take up the courses and…

— Tamilisai Soundararajan

In many cultures, women are sometimes literally kept from learning to read or from going to school.

— Alice Mattison

.Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if…

— Adrienne Rich

Unless a woman has a decided pleasure and facility in teaching, an honest knowledge of everything she professes to impart, a liking for children,…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

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

— Harriet Martineau

Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become…

— Bell Hooks

Why then should women be denied the benefits of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, God almighty would…

— Daniel Defoe

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

If the sewing societies, the avails of whose industry are now expended in supporting and educating young men for the ministry, were to withdraw…

— Sarah Moore Grimke