Around the world Quote by Melinda Gates Download Open image “Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.” — Melinda Gates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Around the world Poverty World
In the United States we have more women in poverty than any other industrialized nation. — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
Women are 1/2 the world population but 3/5 of those living in extreme poverty. — Minka Kelly Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Today is International Women's Day, and there's a fantastic set of pieces running by an organization called ONE called "Poverty Is Sexist." It's a… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
We know that over a billion people live in poverty around the world, and most of them are women and girls. If we can… — Jeanne Shaheen Copy Share Image
The most poor and backward areas in the world are those in which women are subjugated and exploited. Improving the situation of the woman… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Poverty is a bitter weed to most women, and there are few indeed who can accept it with dignity. — Eliza Lynn Linton Copy Share Image
All of my life and particularly throughout of my public career, I have been talking about the feminization of poverty. And one of the… — Letitia James Copy Share Image
I've travelled extensively in the last 16 years - to slums in Bangladesh, to townships in South Africa, to all kinds of places in… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can't even… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family's well-being - as… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant, but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision-makers. When women have the power to make choices… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
When girls are educated and free to pursue their passions, they contribute more to a thriving society. When women have a voice, they raise… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
“Anyone can be made to feel like an outsider. It’s up to the people who have the power to exclude. Often it’s on the… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
I guess, it's a father's dream for his daughter to be known around the world. — Liza Soberano Copy Share Image
Look at music for what it's worth around the world and not just America. In other countries, people are still buying CDs and going… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These immigrants have… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
We know the candidate Barack Obama, what he was like - the anti-war government nig... America was a source for division around the world,… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Since 'coming out,' I've marched in gay pride parades all around the world, I've filled my home full of rainbow tat and I've become… — Liz Carr Copy Share Image
Once, as an experiment, I travelled around the world with a single suit. Before I left, I went to a tailor in Savile Row… — George Hamilton Copy Share Image
Thanks to all members of the military around the world for giving me the ultimate motivation. — Natalya Neidhart Copy Share Image
I look at what's happening around the world and I see Iran four years closer to a bomb. I see the Middle East with… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“The low point occurred in July, during Romney’s junior week abroad, in which the press became increasingly frustrated over Romney’s refusal to talk to… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
I believe there definitely are good things about social networking. It's a way for people to connect all around the world. — Lizzie Velasquez Copy Share Image
