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Women Quotes by Melinda Gates
- If we're going to make progress on this issue [of contraception], we have to be really clear about what our agenda is. We're not talking…
- In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women,…
- The fact that 98 percent of women in [the U.S.] who are sexually experienced say they use birth control doesn't make sex any less sacred.…
- Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born.
- All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
- Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant, but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision-makers. When women have the power to make choices about…
- When girls are educated and free to pursue their passions, they contribute more to a thriving society. When women have a voice, they raise it…
- When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
- If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
- When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development
- If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
- Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
- Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future…
- Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
- A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
More Women Quotes
- 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