Nancy Gibbs Quotes

In Pakistan, the right to go to school is not a given. In the more rural areas, a girl is born, married off as early as 9 years old, and basically lives life under the control of men.

One of the things we have to remember about the poorest countries in the world is that parents, extremely poor parents, are making the choice of whether to send their girls to school. And they are struggling with lack of water, lack of firewood, and lack of care for their youngest children. And those burdens fall on the girls.

Many girls do not go to school because of poverty.

Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.

It is really mortifying, sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of education between the male and female sex, even in those families where education is attended to... Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne.

When a woman has her first child in places like Africa, they're really young. They can be 12, 13,14, so their frames are really small, and they're usually malnourished.

When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

If women want to be treated equally, then they can't ask for sops and whine about not being treated equally. All I'll say is no guts, no glory for men or women.

Oprah didn't want to put me on the show for a really long time because she thought I was more for the men than for the women.

If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.

There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.

Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and men in these communities is holding back progress. These women have a very tough time, so much is expected of them.

Not regarded as the equals of men.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior: she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

Women are not by nature inferior to men...

In our tribal areas the literacy rate among women is 3%; among men, 17%; and there is no economy.

It is better to be a male for one day than a female for ten

The only power that females have is given to them by males. The only thing which females do with that power is use it against males.