Joyce Banda Quotes

My mission in life is to assist women in social and political empowerment through business and education.

When girls can get an education and women can work and run businesses or even serve as elected officials, the world benefits.

Full social and political engagement is impossible without economic empowerment, a point that is as true for women as it is for young people of either gender.

My mother insists women must have financial independence, which is why I completed my degree in medicine.

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

Targeting women is key in developing countries. It allows them to go to school, to say how many children they're going to have, which drives the issue of population and how their children will be educated. Women are the best investments in developing countries.

A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.

There is no doubt that a woman's economic empowerment is very much interconnected to her health and the well being of her children.

If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.

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.

In this country it is the women who are concerned with commerce.

I don't have any plans to make money for myself. All I wish to do is empower rural women in our country.

Empowering women with greater income opportunities will lift societies at a much faster rate.

While Airbnb cannot singlehandedly level the playing field for women, I believe we can play a role in enabling women around the world to follow their passions and design the lives they want.

I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations.

By empowering a woman, we empower a child. By educating a girl child, we make it possible for her to grow up to become an empowered woman.

Teach girls to read and to work at something where they can bring home money - and the entire balance of power shifts.

The company was actually founded on creating earnings opportunities for women, even before it went into skincare, lipstick, and fragrance. The founding Avon principle, before women could vote and when basically only men were working, was to allow women to get out of their homes and to create an entrepreneurship opportunity for them.

We women don't care too much about getting our pictures on money as long as we can get our hands on it.

It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.

There's a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.

There are too many African-Americans with too much money for us to have to go to anybody else for anything in terms of schools, in terms of scholarships, in terms of entrepreneurship, in terms of moving us along as a group to that place where we should be as a people.

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 what's best about entrepreneurship.

As people of color, it took a whole generation in many ways to get us out of the kitchen, and it's gonna take us the same whole generation to get us back into the kitchen and have ownership of restaurants, hotels and stuff like that.

I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.