Bigger Quote by Amartya Sen

Your voice is much more articulate and people listen to you if you've been to school. In family decisions, not surprisingly, the biggest impact…

— Amartya Sen

You educate a boy, and he'll have fewer children, but it's a small effect. You educate a girl, and, on average, she will have…

— Nicholas Kristof

There’s a clear and strong connection between fertility reduction and women’s literacy and empowerment, including women’s gainful employment. If you look at the more…

— Amartya Sen

Anything that increases the voice of young women tends therefore to reduce the fertility rate.

— Amartya Sen

China had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the one-child family.

— Amartya Sen

Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing that. That,…

— Al Gore

Educating girls prevents child marriage and early pregnancy and helps women get jobs, which boosts household incomes and economic growth. It gives girls a…

— Alok Sharma

Unless women have, from the moment of birth, socialization for, expectations of, and preparation for a viable significant alternative to motherhood . . .…

— Wilma Scott Heide

When it comes to fertility, there are so may things that have to go right. In any one individual, there might be one major…

— Robert Greene

Women's education has a much greater impact [on], for example, fertility. Men's education, if our studies are correct, ha[s] almost no impact on fertility.…

— Amartya Sen

Something as simple as better breastfeeding could save a million children a year.

— Anne M. Mulcahy

Children are the greatest blessing, and we should support families in their journey to having them, especially as we are seeing increasing rates of…

— Anna Paulina Luna