21 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi about women


  • Author Mahatma Gandhi
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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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  • Author Mahatma Gandhi
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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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  • Author Mahatma Gandhi
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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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  • Author Mahatma Gandhi
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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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