Bigger Quote by Matt Damon

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

— Ban Ki-moon

it is impossible to attack the problem of poverty in the industrialized or the developing world effectively unless the extent to which poverty is…

— Hilda Scott

In the United States we have more women in poverty than any other industrialized nation.

— Patricia Arquette

In the poorest countries...it is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty...and preparing another generation for...leading their countries into real security.

— Queen Noor of Jordan

Women are 1/2 the world population but 3/5 of those living in extreme poverty.

— Minka Kelly

Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.

— Melinda Gates

Women continue receiving less salary for the same kind of job. Women have a higher unemployment rate in our country. When you analyze the…

— Laura Chinchilla

No matter how you measure it, women and girls bear the brunt of poverty. But it's also clear that women are also our greatest…

— Helene D. Gayle

“Those hundreds of “gender projects” funded by aid money might have been more effective if they had also included men. The fact that Westerners…

— Jenny Nordberg

We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the…

— Michelle Bachelet

We need to shift from an economic to a humanitarian organizing principle for human civilization. And women, en masse, should be saying so.

— Marianne Williamson