Higher education Quote by Meg Waite Clayton

Virginia has no shortage of pioneering women who have made history by overcoming doubt and discrimination, by daring to step into roles that had…

— Ralph Northam

“I had heard of Virginia before only in passing, a "crazy ex" with whom things had not ended well. I was accustomed to this…

— Alana Massey

“What goes unsaid is that women might be more ambitious and focused because we’ve never had a choice. We’ve had to fight to vote,…

— Roxane Gay

“Crucially, many of those radically single and late-married women were the ones who were able to devote their unmarried, nonmaternal lives to changing the…

— Rebecca Traister

“She wrote that she was pretty sure more women and people of color could enroll “without denying to white men of merit a fair…

— Irin Carmon

“It took our entire history to actually change the rules of proper female behavior. But those rules were temporarily abandoned whenever the country needed…

— Gail Collins

“She did not date. She did not have time for men. Men were never, ever worth a great amount of energy. She was the…

— Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney

“Your life can be different, Young Ju. Study and be strong. In America, women have choices.”

— An Na

“It's a shame for a woman's history to be all about men-first boys, then other boys, then men, men, men. It reminds me of…

— Elizabeth Kostova

“Consequently he would go about this in a very logical, reasonable way. The fact that he was attracted to Lady Dorothea was not important—and…

— Melanie Dickerson

“Relentlessly sociable and bent on a public life, the transition to the legislature was natural for a woman who never seemed to recognize how…

— Linda Hirshman

“The sexual segregation of the labour force, and the preservation of workplaces as arenas for fraternal solidarity, have remained remarkably stable during the twentieth…

— Carole Pateman