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- Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool ... but we must move beyond micro-hopes and micro-ambitions for women.
- 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.
- We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.
- 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.
- 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…
- The women of Afghanistan have a voice, and it needs to be heard and not forgotten.
- In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men.
- 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…
- No one argues with the many benefits of breastfeeding for those women who choose it.
- Women who choose to breastfeed should get as much education and support as possible.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- I also have this incredible love for women. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the… — Mary Kay Ash
- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
- You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike. — Dave Attell
- When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched… — Chinua Achebe
- All fat women look the same; they all look 42. — Margaret Atwood
- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
- You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but… — Margaret Atwood