Quotes by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

About Gayle Tzemach Lemmon:

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is a journalist and the author of The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, a New York Times best seller published in March 2011 by HarperCollins, of Child Brides, Global Consequences: How to End Child Marriage, published in 2014 by the Council on Foreign Relations, and of Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield, another New York Times best seller published in 2015 by HarperCollins. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a contributor to the Atlantic's Defense One site covering foreign policy and national security matters.
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The military alone cannot end the conflict in Afghanistan. On that much nearly everyone can agree, offering a rare island of consensus among sides otherwise divided on the question of how and when America's longest-ever war should wind down.

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Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there are people depending on them, I think that their creativity, their resilience, their spirit, embody...

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Microfinance does not require previous experience or loans to the same extent as a small-business loan, so it's easier for women to enter the micro sector.

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I don't often think of Donald Trump, but his daughter is very smart. She's a woman working in real estate, which is predominantly men, and she's both savvy and articulate about her business and her business acumen.

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No woman in Afghanistan is in business without support from either her husband or her father or her uncle, someone.

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The one thing you learn from looking at places like Afghanistan is that the power of business to do good is enormous.

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The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have...

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I think entrepreneurs are born and not created, and so I think you see a lot of similarities among entrepreneurs in different parts of the world. Their backdrop may be very different, but their drive to create a business and to create jobs remains ve...

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A social entrepreneur finds market-based solutions for change. Because without a market-based solution, without a sustainable solution, you go nowhere.

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I'm a really bad driver. When I'm in L.A. my husband always has to park the car for me, because I'm likely to hit something.

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Women who choose to breastfeed should get as much education and support as possible.

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Educating girls just one year beyond the average fourth grade education increases their eventual earnings by 10 to 20 percent. Every additional year of secondary education can increase future wages by 15 to 25 percent.

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In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able to report, and the kind of stories people will tell you.

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What I learned at journalism school and at ABC - those skills are the same no matter where you are in the world.

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I think that sometimes people are frightened to take the risk of entrepreneurship.

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My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship.

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Educated mothers are 50 percent more likely to immunize their children than mothers with no schooling.

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Giving birth to a baby does not make you an infant.

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Single mothers are raising more of America's children than ever before.

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A lot has been said about single mothers. Most of it has been less than flattering.

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