Book Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world is only to be acquired by reading…

— Anonymous

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

— Alice Mattison

Most books are bought by women.

— Gloria Steinem

Women, on average, are less knowledgeable than men. They're less intellectual than men.

— Amy Wax

The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family…

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

The proper study of mankind is woman.

— Henry Adams

Woman's world is her husband, her family, her children and her home. We do not find it right when she presses into the world…

— Adolf Hitler

Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I…

— Alexander McCall Smith

It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.

— William Hazlitt

Books are a finer world within the world.

— Alexander Smith

“In The Woman Reader Kate Flint argues that "the study of reading...involves examining a fulcrum: the meeting-place of discourses of subjectivity and socialization." Reading…

— Ann Romines

Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are…

— Virginia Woolf