All Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Quotes
- Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one. All
- Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool ... but we must move beyond micro-hopes and micro-ambitions for women. Ambition
- If you're talking about entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict settings, then you must talk about women, because they are the population you have left. Conflict
- We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected. Pitied
- What I learned at journalism school and at ABC - those skills are the same no matter where you are in the world. Abc
- I think that sometimes people are frightened to take the risk of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship
- The one thing you learn from looking at places like Afghanistan is that the power of business to do good is enormous. Afghanistan
- A social entrepreneur finds market-based solutions for change. Because without a market-based solution, without a sustainable solution, you go nowhere. Based
- Because microfinance is so manageable in terms of the size of the loan, people have made it the cornerstone to lifting women out of poverty. Cornerstone
- No woman in Afghanistan is in business without support from either her husband or her father or her uncle, someone. Afghanistan
- The draconian prohibitions of the Taliban years and the gains Afghan women have achieved since the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001 are now well… Achieved
- The women of Afghanistan have a voice, and it needs to be heard and not forgotten. Afghanistan
- My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on… Academic
- Educating girls just one year beyond the average fourth grade education increases their eventual earnings by 10 to 20 percent. Every additional year of secondary… Additional
- Educated mothers are 50 percent more likely to immunize their children than mothers with no schooling. Children
- In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men. African
- It is high time to declare an end to the breastfeeding dictatorship that is drowning women in guilt and worry just when they most need… Birth
- No one argues with the many benefits of breastfeeding for those women who choose it. Argues
- Women who choose to breastfeed should get as much education and support as possible. Breastfeed
- War reporters are often seen as a wild bunch of thrill-seekers who wade into danger zones simply for the sake of the adrenalin high the… Adrenalin
- The majority of Afghans do not see the Americans as foreign occupiers who must be defeated. Instead, they are hungry for the Americans to step… Afghans
- Certainly Afghans in general and women in particular want a country in which security is a daily reality rather than a campaign slogan or the… Afghans
- Giving birth to a baby does not make you an infant. Baby
- Numerically speaking, half the population cannot be a minority. Yet when it comes to women, the numbers plainly show that the mathematically impossible is the… Acceptable
- It matters whether women sit at the table. No one speaks up for you when you are standing outside with your nose pressed up against… Glass