#pow

What the critic as a teacher of language tries to teach is not an elegant accomplishment, but the means of conscious life. Literary education should lead not merely to the admiration of great literature, but to some possession of its power of utterance. The ultimate aim is an ethical and participating aim, not an aesthetic or contemplative one, even though the latter may be the means of achieving the former. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#language #life #literature #participate #power

Knowledge is Power, Power provides Information; Information leads to Education, Education breeds Wisdom; Wisdom is Liberation. People are not liberated because of lack of knowledge. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#education #ignorance #ignorant-people #information #information-is-liberation

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women. ↗

— Malala Yousafzai

#freedom-of-choice #girl-power #islam #women-s-rights #education

It may be a man's world, but men are easily controlled by women. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#equality #gender #man #men-world #power

Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#equality #females #girls #human-beings #women

If you are interested in equality at all costs, you should never have gone looking for your power in the first place. Holding authority with integrity is more important than making others feel good. ↗

— Anne Hill

#power #spirituality #equality

It's not just about the money. It's about fairness, and equality, and how profoundly our political culture is infused with the imperatives to keep us divided on the most fundamental bases ↗

— Ellen Shaffer

#freedom #inspirational #life #politics #power

If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?...I mean, men give her [a queen] power. They let her use their power. But it isn't hers, is it? It isn't because she's a woman that she's powerful, but despite it. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#equality #feminism #men #power #queen

I value my own independence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than that of having another man perpetually directing and advising and lecturing me, or even planning too closely in any way about my actions. He might be the wisest of men, or the most powerful--I should equally rebel and resent his interference... ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#power #rebel #self #equality

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#law #money #power #equality