Community Quote by Michelle Obama

“Social science now tells us that if we can take indigent girls between the ages of 10 and 14 and give them a basic…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted,…

— Harri Holkeri

Everything has to do with education: If you educate the girls, you educate the family, the community, and society, in general.

— Alek Wek

Education is about women and girls. It is important for girls to go to school because they will become their children's first teachers someday.

— Peng Liyuan

“Becoming a woman is an act partly of nature and partly of self-invention; Girl Land is the place and time in which all of…

— Caitlin Flanagan

In many developing countries, girls don't go to school. They stay home. They are at the water wells, bringing water back and forth to…

— Laura Bush

Education could be a great vehicle for gender equity. It allows people to see what your rights are by reading. Quite often women, for…

— Amartya Sen

“The education of women, for instance, would naturally be regarded as likely to be harmful, but the government opens schools and universities for women."…

— Anton Chekhov

Educating girls prevents child marriage and early pregnancy and helps women get jobs, which boosts household incomes and economic growth. It gives girls a…

— Alok Sharma

Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became…

— Lucretia Mott

Education is key. We have to keep girls in school and give them the same opportunities that boys have. They need access to vocational…

— Gillian Anderson

At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of…

— William John Wills