#wome

Under her high brows, she eyed him straight on and straight across. She had gone to girls' schools, he recalled later. Those girls looked straight at you. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#women #education

The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women. ↗

— Henry Adams

#women #education

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#enmity #friendship #love #men #men and women

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#education #empowerment #inequality #men #women

However, he did say that a state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

#women #women-s-rights #education

...the state of Virginia had turned down twenty-one thousand women for admission to state colleges in 1970 while not turning away a single man... ↗

— Meg Waite Clayton

#women #education

Girls possess sexual tact in inverse proportion to their standard of education. ↗

— John Fowles

#women-sexuality #education

I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back. ↗

— Malala Yousafzai

#women-s-rights #education

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. ↗

— Timothy Leary

#ambition #equal #lack #men #seek

Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#inspirational #race #women #equality