Zozibini Tunzi Quotes

We should be teaching young girls to take up space. Nothing is as important as taking up space in society and cementing yourself.

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.

Overall, I have formed three major organizations: the National Association of Business Women, the Young Women's Leaders Network, and the Joyce Banda Foundation. Under the foundation, we have a huge program that targets women to teach them about HIV and other diseases and to give them economic empowerment.

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

It's nice to be a woman, and it's nice to be an Asian. But what's more important is what I can bring back to my district.

According to my mother, my wife and my daughter, this world would be a lot better off with women running things.

Many women have education. But education in professional matters is very different from education in politics and preparing to take leadership roles in the society

I believe in women having a voice, being empowered, speaking up, and having ideas.

I think being a young woman is a strength.

I started a campaign in South Africa called Unbreakable where I empower women all over my country with skills and knowledge how to handle difficult situations, and I really hope to use the Miss Universe platform to elevate that cause.

To be able to make other girls play - and hopefully in Latin America as well - is very important to me.

I want to go back to my country to help other girls. We need to support girls to see other possibilities for themselves, to have a vision for their own future.

I know this president. And I can tell you that he cares deeply about the next generation of young women in this country - his daughters, and everyone's daughters. President Obama had the courage to stand with Sandra Fluke. Without hesitation, he defended her right to tell her story.

The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.

I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.

I really think that women should be allowed to be more European, in this country.

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.

I like to think I'm a role model for women. But I also don't like to just limit it to women. I like to think I'm a role model for human beings in general.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

As a husband and a father of two daughters, I want young women around the globe to have the same rights and opportunities as my daughters.

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.

It matters whether women sit at the table. No one speaks up for you when you are standing outside with your nose pressed up against the glass. You cannot window-shop for power.

You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.