Agriculture Quote by Frances Moore Lappé

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her…

— Isabel Allende

Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty.

— Ban Ki-moon

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

Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children.…

— Ban Ki-moon

Nations are more successful when their women are successful.

— Barack Obama

I believe that the time has come for women to take more active roles in all domains of human society, in an age in…

— Dalai Lama

Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the…

— Nawal El Saadawi

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

Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital that is…

— Mahnaz Afkhami

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

It is accepted the world over that women are an essential part of what makes a society successful, and only through supporting and empowering…

— Shabana Azmi

Women are leaders everywhere you look, from a CEO to house a wife that holds together a home. Our country was built by women…

— Denise Clark