Jenna Bush Quotes

The seeds of success in every nation on Earth are best planted in women and children.

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.

Oprah Winfrey's global influence is unparalleled. Not only has her generosity and firm belief that education is the key to a better life benefited countless women and children around the world, but her example has also inspired millions of people to give back in ways big and small.

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today' show, the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days, 25 to 30 years ago, that was called soft news, and not in a nice way.

I want to be an activist professor.

I'm not only passionate about dressing women and helping them feel and look their best, but also about helping to give a stronger voice to women and children in need around the world.

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

Centuries have elapsed since schools were first established.... Because learning was viewed as the exclusive province of the samurai and his superiors, farmers, artisans, merchants and women have neglected it altogether.... There shall, in the future, be no community with an illiterate family, nor a family with an illiterate person .... Hereafter ... every man shall, of his own accord, subordinate all other matters to the education of his children.

We have much participation of women in Afghanistan politics. Yet 86 percent of the women are illiterate. I and the women who come before you are not typical of women in our country.

If I am honored to serve as first lady, I will use that wonderful privilege to try to help people in our country who need it the most. One of the many causes dear to my heart is helping children and women.

I'm fortunate to be in a position to support nonprofits that align with my personal priorities, which include women's health issues, cancer research, environmental concerns, and education for women and children domestically and globally.

I stand for the education of the South African youth, for equality and representation, as Miss South Africa, I cannot wait to make a contribution to these important social causes.

Camfed graduates are active in their villages using their skills and resources to improve as many lives as possible. They are teaching financial literacy to marginalized women and bringing vital health care information to rural schoolchildren. Through example, they are demonstrating the power of philanthropy.

Everything has to do with education: If you educate the girls, you educate the family, the community, and society, in general.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.

I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.

Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

Poverty can't be an excuse for bad teaching, but teaching can't be the only thing we do to combat poverty.

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

I want every girl, every child, to be educated.

I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.