Answers Quote by Greg Mortenson

If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of infant mortality…

— Greg Mortenson

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

— Tae Yoo

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

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

Everything has to do with education: If you educate the girls, you educate the family, the community, and society, in general.

— Alek Wek

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

— Cathie Black

I ask you all so earnestly to open girl's schools in every village and try to uplift them. If the Conditions of women are…

— Swami Vivekananda

Educating girls prevents child marriage and early pregnancy and helps women get jobs, which boosts household incomes and economic growth. It gives girls a…

— Alok Sharma

Education is key. We have to keep girls in school and give them the same opportunities that boys have. They need access to vocational…

— Gillian Anderson

Getting more girls a good education requires an approach that harnesses the collective efforts of developing nations, donor nations, multilateral organizations, NGOs, private-sector institutions.

— Julia Gillard

To build a more healthy, peaceful and equitable world the classrooms of the world have to be full of girls as well as boys

— Kofi Annan

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