Mahatma Gandhi Women Quotations

Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?

If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.

Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.

For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.

My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

I have mentally become a woman in order to steal into her heart.

I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman.

Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.

Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.

Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself.

Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?

A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.

The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.

The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.

Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life.

Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.

Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.

If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.

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.

Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

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.