The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. – Robert Louis Stevenson
When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh. – Amartya Sen
People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one. – Johann von Goethe
