Christian Quote by Daniel Defoe

Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of…

— Andre Maurois

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

— Alice Mattison

Women are hungry for things of the Spirit, for truths that counter the slide of virtues all around them. Visiting teaching is a measure…

— Bonnie D. Parkin

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

— Amartya Sen

In India, [in] the great documents like [the] Upanishads in eighth century B.C., you find some of the wisest [women] making great, learned speeches…

— Amartya Sen

I have often wondered that learning is not thought a proper ingredient in the education of a woman of quality or fortune. Since they…

— Joseph Addison

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

— Margaret Mead

The culture looms much larger than you do as a parent, and one can hardly rely on the culture to impart the lesson that…

— Rumaan Alam

If you teach a girl, you are not just imparting education to a woman but to a family that will later help in nation…

— Smriti Irani

Once universities, rather than religious orders, were established as the key repositories of learning, women would find it ever harder to prove the pen…

— Bettany Hughes

We're evolving as a culture as well and as more equality gets supplanted in society, well, in the U.S. anyway, it's only helping women.…

— Barbara Crampton

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living,…

— William Law