Answers Quote by Greg Mortenson

Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home,…

— Greg Mortenson

If you really want to change a culture... empower women.

— Greg Mortenson

There is a reason you keep hearing about the power of educating girls in the developing world. It's a reason so simple that you…

— Richard E. Robbins

If you can educate girls, you can change the world.

— Cathie Black

If you can intervene early in the lives of girls here and in other parts of the world, you can begin to change the…

— Jane Fonda

As educated girls become women, they can transform local communities and act as role models for younger girls.

— Tae Yoo

In many developing countries, girls don't go to school. They stay home. They are at the water wells, bringing water back and forth to…

— Laura Bush

I think there really needs to be a culture change because young girls are very interested in math and science, but somewhere along the…

— Peggy Johnson

You can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won’t change.

— Greg Mortenson

I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some…

— Zainab Salbi

The education of women is the best way to save the environment.

— E. O. Wilson

As conscious adult women, if we really do care about the state of girls and women worldwide, we need to train this next generation…

— Kamala Lopez