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Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Women while in college ought to have the broadest possible education. This college education should be the same as men's, not only because there…

— M. Carey Thomas

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

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

“This link was not coincidental: the movement to create university-level courses for women, still barred from the universities, was an integral part of the…

— Michael David-Fox

I am interested in recent scholarly work examining the emergence of women's studies and ethnic studies departments and the development of the neoliberal university.

— Dean Spade

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual…

— Mary Augusta Ward

“A couple of years after I graduated from university, in January 2005, the president of Harvard University, economist Lawrence Summers, gave voice to one…

— Angela Saini

“A university is a human invention for the transmission of knowledge and culture from generation to generation, through the training of quick minds and…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

Men didn't like to empty bedpans, so we made women nurses. Then men didn't like to do the administrative stuff, so women were allowed…

— John Shelby Spong

“Up until 1900, more than half the graduates from women's colleges remained single, many of them carving out careers in new fields such as…

— Stephanie Coontz

“Studies repeatedly show that if you attended a women’s college, you are likely to have higher self-esteem and more intellectual self-confidence than your counterparts…

— Valerie Young