Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide Quotes

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

...cultural barriers can be overcome relatively swiftly where there is the political will to do so.

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Often we blame a region's religion when the oppression instead may be rooted in its culture. Yet, that acknowledged, it's also true that . . . it is often cited by the oppressors.

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women's power as economic catalysts. That is the process under way - not a drama of victimization b...

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few societies to take a contrary view was the Huichol tribe in Mexico. The Huichol believed that the ...

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

It's no accident that the countries that have enjoyed an economic take off have been those that educated girls and then gave them the autonomy to move to the cities to find work

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

...when women gain control over spending, less family money is devoted to instant gratification and more for education and starting small businesses.

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the...

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide