Education

“The business of education is not to make the pupil perfect in any [one] of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them capable of [mstering] any [of them], when they shall apply themselves to it.”
. John Locke (1632-1704)

“The great end of education is to discipline rather than furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others’.”
. Tryon Edwards (1809-1894)

“Without knowledge the world is bereft of culture. And so we must be educators and students both.”
. Roberta Bondar - Canada's first woman in space (1945-)

Emancipation

“Feminism is based on social justice, for it claims but the equality of rights and of possibility between men and women.”
Idola Saint-Jean (1880-1945)

Women should have economic security on a basis of equality with men. No woman can be free so long as she is economically dependent upon a man no matter how kind or generous that man my be. Gertrude Telford

“The women who have achieved success in the various fields of labour have won the victory for us, but unless we all follow up and press onward the advantage will be lost. Yesterday’s successes will not do for today!”
Nellie McClung - suffragist (1873 - 1951)

Leadership

“Women's literacy and education are key to empowering women's participation in decision making in society and to improving families’ well-being.”
UN, The Beijing Declaration (1996) § 13, 14, and 17.

“We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.”
Margaret Atwood (1939 - )

“Building equality is lots of mortar and once in a while a brick is put in place with lots more mortar. It is a lot of work and it takes time.”
Nancy Ruth (1942 - )