Swara Bhaskar Quotes

Mum was an absolutely determined woman. She was determined I would have a good education, and they went without all sorts of things to ensure it.

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

Even though I was sent to private school, it was purely because mum and dad wanted the best for me, and they worked their socks off in order to be able to give me that.

Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess.

It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

I used to be scared of women. When I was very young they terrified me, but discovering the female universe was incredible and still is to this day, as you never stop learning about them.

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.

Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.

When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing.

Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise.

Education does loads of things for girls that won't surprise you at all - it provides self-esteem, teaches important life skills, and offers the kinds of choices a good education can give anyone.

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.

My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business in copper and aluminum wire. He was very strict and he wanted me to work in the family business - for him, the worst thing was having a daughter who worked in fashion.

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

When I was growing up, there was still that narrative of 'you finish school, you go and get married, you become somebody's wife and you get kids and tend to them.' I think it is really important to reach for something.

I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged going to university and doing a PhD. Most people of my background don't get to do that.

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development.

Middle-class families know education begins at birth.

I came from a middle-class family in Mexico, from a household full of women, in a country that is very machista.

In the Dominican, there are a lot of kids who need help. I just do that for my mom because my mom liked to help a lot of kids in the Dominican. Whoever I am right now is because of her. She gave me the education; she always took care of me like a mommy.

I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didn't always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, 'You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we haven't thought of yet.'