Awake Quote by Jeanne Elium

Somehow we have been taught to believe that the experiences of girls and women are not important in the study and understanding ofhuman behavior.…

— Jeanne Elium (20th Century

If we truly believe that every girl in every corner of the globe is worthy of an education as our own daughters and granddaughters…

— Michelle Obama

“Women HAVE a history that has been systematically suppressed. Our collective spirituality has largely been tainted to fit the needs of men and those…

— Trista Hendren

One of the challenges is to create an equally positive, satisfying sense of femininity and feminine identity in a different way so that there…

— Peggy Orenstein

Women themselves condition their daughters to serve the system of male primacy. If a daughter challenges it, the mother will generally defend the system…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“In order to gain gender equality, women and men must work together, equally, to teach our daughters and sons to embrace our differences, respect…

— Basia Christ

Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if…

— Elizabeth Debold

We have to raise our young boys to respect women and our young girls to demand respect and to get their values from something…

— Paula Broadwell

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

Every day, women and girls are finding incredible confidence and taking risks. When they change one mind, pretty soon, they have changed one tradition.…

— Jill Biden

“When we were teenagers, we would imagine that when we had daughters of our own, we wouldn't be so strict. We would give them…

— Tova Mirvis

Culturally we're shown an impossible fantasy of how women should present themselves, how they should behave with men.

— Stacy Martin