21 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi about women
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Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; the female sex.
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Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior...If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.
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Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.
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If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.
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Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over man. As Tolstoy used to say, they are laboring under the hypnotic influence of man. If they would realize the strength of non-violence they would not consent to be called the weaker sex.
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Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.
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Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?
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If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.
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Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.
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