“She was a lovely woman, fitted both by nature and education to be an ornament to society and her family.”

“Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.”

“That woman, as nature has created her and as man is at present educating her, is his enemy. She can only be his slave or his despot, but never his companion. This she can become only when she has the same rights as he, and is his equal in education and wor.”

“An educated woman knows how to make both men and women feel at ease in her presence without losing respect.”

“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family”

“Vanda (as Dunayev): In our society, a woman's only power is through men. Her character is her lack of character. She's a blank, to be filled in my creatures who at heart despise her. I want to see what Woman will be when she ceases to be man's slave. When she has the same rights as he, when she's his equal in education and his partner in work. When she becomes herself. An individual.”