African-authors Quote by Sahndra Fon Dufe

“it is a vicious circle. Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the absence of…

— Leo Tolstoy

“the education of women is apt to be confounded with the emancipation of women, and that it is only so that it can be…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Education continued to come under particularly strong fire...: If women learned how to manage in the world as well as men, if they learned…

— Lillian Faderman

“Our schools kept from us, for as long as they could, the dangerous, disruptive, upsetting knowledge of our own female nature.”

— Hilary Mantel

“An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the…

— Terry Pratchett

“Women the world over suffer restrictions.”

— Sara Sheridan

“is for this reason women should not educate themselves beyond affairs of the home.”

— Rachel Florence Roberts

“A woman who can read can educate herself. A woman who cannot knows only what she is told.”

— Teresa Swift

“I suppose it is just one of the lessons that we poor women have to learn . . .”

— Bram Stoker

“Girls is a fine example of someone writing what she knows and the painful limitations of doing so.”

— Roxane Gay

“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

“You must go around the states lecturing to women. And the inoffensive writers who've never dared lecture anyone, let alone women-they are frightened of…

— Dylan Thomas