Agendas Quote by Melinda Gates

I think countries are now, leaders are now more conscious of the importance of having women engage in their country's development plan. Because again,…

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

If women are the key to Africa's future - and I believe they are - we must figure out how to take away the…

— Richard Attias

Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. They do agriculture.

— Mo Ibrahim

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

I believe that women are rising to the occasion to tackle many challenges. Whether it's issues that relate to prosperity, the defense of country,…

— Nancy Pelosi

The choices that women make have huge impact on families, on communities and on nations. Being able to provide an enabling environment for them…

— Babatunde Osotimehin

“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

Men, as an organization, are getting more women than any other group working anywhere in the world. Wherever women are, we have men looking…

— Jerry Seinfeld

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 are more than 50% of almost every country in the world. Countries rob themselves of the resources of women if they keep them…

— Madeleine Albright

It's an objective fact, that if you want to solve some of these huge, kind of bigger problems of extreme poverty, you have to…

— Matt Damon

Women need to see ourselves as individuals capable of creating change. That is what political and economic power is all about: having a voice,…

— Madeleine M. Kunin