Community Quote by Ban Ki-moon

It's an objective fact, that if you want to solve some of these huge, kind of bigger problems of extreme poverty, you have to…

— Matt Damon

Women can succeed in villages all over the world today without relying on heavy machinery or debt. They can take leadership roles in agriculture,…

— Frances Moore Lappé

Of course, in our country, developing in a region with somewhat conservative traditions, women were desperately needed to be more engaged - socially, economically,…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

When you empower women and help them thrive, you help their communities thrive. Women shoulder the burden disproportionately.

— Joy Bryant

The choices that women make have huge impact on families, on communities and on nations. Being able to provide an enabling environment for them…

— Babatunde Osotimehin

Women need to be empowered to shape their own livelihoods and become CEOs of their own lives. They must be allowed to take control…

— Philomena Kwao

In the poorest countries...it is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty...and preparing another generation for...leading their countries into real security.

— Queen Noor of Jordan

Women are the key to successful development and ongoing progress. In the workforce, their ingenuity, determination, and hard work help our economies thrive. In…

— Tedros Adhanom

It makes perfect economic sense to integrate women in the economy in the developing world in order to catch up with advanced countries, thereby…

— Arancha Gonzalez

Women with education, skills, and independent sources of income are more able to withstand the pressures of the patriarchal family and more able to…

— Deeyah Khan

There is no tool for development more effective than the education of girls and the empowerment of women... When women are fully involved, the…

— Kofi Annan

In the United States we have more women in poverty than any other industrialized nation.

— Patricia Arquette