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I convinced myself economic empowerment of women was going to be key, especially in a country like this where most women didn't go to school. -- Joyce Banda
I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism. -- Patricia Ireland
President Obama has called for economic and political empowerment of women globally. The Equal Futures Partnership promotes removal of policy, legal, and regulatory barriers that hold women back at local, state and national levels. -- Lael Brainard
I sat down in 1989 and I made up my mind at that point that I was going to spend the rest of my life assisting women and youth to gain social and political empowerment through business and education. I convinced myself economic empowerment of women was going to be key, especially in a country like this where most women didn't go to school. -- Joyce Banda
...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women. -- Kofi Annan
We believe in the empowerment of women and we will not compromise in that goal. -- Chris Bowen
When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women. -- Sheryl WuDunn
The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers. -- Hans Rosling
I think the economic empowerment of women that has been growing over the past decade is at the 'inflection point' with this global recession. Women are, we believe, the solution for their families in their ability to go out and increase household income. -- Andrea Jung
Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment of women, moving women into the workplace; our feelings about our role in the world. All of that comes in a very direct way out of World War II. -- Rick Atkinson
MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction. -- Christopher Hitchens
Gender equality and empowerment of women is key to the success of the Millennium Development Goals. Not only as a specific target, but for the goals in general. Women bear a heavier burden of the world's poverty than men, because of the discrimination they face in education, health care, employment and control of assets. -- Johanna Sigurðardottir
So much of what I do is about inspiring and empowering women. -- Bobbi Brown
I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress. -- Alexander McQueen
As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender. -- Steven Pinker
Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered. -- Weili Dai
By boosting oversight and accountability, we can empower the VA in its core mission of helping the men and women who have served our country. -- Ann Kirkpatrick
Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere? -- Annie Lennox
Women like to watch women fight because it makes them feel sort of empowered physically and mentally. They feel kind of jazzed and excited by it. -- Lucy Liu
Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments. -- Bella Abzug
I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be more visible in any area of our lives. -- Gloria Steinem
Marching with over a million women in support of our reproductive rights was one of the most empowering things I have done, both as a woman and as a Member of Congress. -- Sheila Jackson Lee
I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
Female empowerment really is important to me. I'm a big nerd of the books from the 15th Century and 16th Century, when the men had all the power and the women had none of it. -- Ariel Winter
My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism. -- Patricia Ireland
That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather, when women are empowered, when they can speak from the experience of their own lives, they often address different, previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit. -- Dee Dee Myers
I've been a staunch advocate of women's empowerment, and I've worked hard throughout my career to advance the cause. It is heartening to see that gender equality is really becoming more of a reality. There is still much more to be done, and I'm confident that, by working together, we can empower women worldwide. -- Madhuri Dixit
A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
I am passionate about women's empowerment and women's ways. -- Stephanie Moore
Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights. -- Mahnaz Afkhami
The empowerment of black women constitutes the empowerment of our entire community. -- Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Our Matru Shakti is our pride. Women empowerment is very crucial to our development. -- Narendra Modi
I prefer the word "engagement." Instead of empowerment, it's enabling women to engage in business. -- Sallie Krawcheck
Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East. -- Dalia Mogahed
My mission in life is to assist women in social and political empowerment through business and education. -- Joyce Banda
My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation. -- Michelle Bachelet
I'm a bit of a feminist and very "female empowerment," and women should be able to do what they please. -- Laura Vandervoort
The empowerment of girls and women is an essential tool to preventing the HIV/AIDS emergency from exploding any further -- Ashley Judd
Walmart's Global Women's Economic Empowerment Initiative is working to create opportunity and empower women and girls in markets around the world. -- Sylvia Mathews Burwell
I'm passionate about the empowerment and healing of girls and women. Where I do the most work in that regard is in my songwriting. -- India.Arie

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