Melinda Gates Quotes

Investments in women are positively correlated to growth, prosperity, stability, democracy, health - and vital to our national security. We cannot write off the talent of half the world and expect to confront our challenges.

If women are the key to Africa's future - and I believe they are - we must figure out how to take away the barriers to their participation.

My government's pro-women initiatives, starting from Mission Shakti to Mamata, along with 50% reservations for women in the panchayat and urban local body polls have helped empower women in political, social, and economic spheres.

I think the economic empowerment of women that has been growing over the past decade is at the 'inflection point' with this global recession. Women are, we believe, the solution for their families in their ability to go out and increase household income.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

Women are a dynamic economic force. We represent the largest consumer market in the world and are drivers of GDP. More and more companies recognize that when they support women as customers, employees, leaders, future investors and partners, they are adopting sound business strategies and advancing social progress.

I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.

NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.

The BJP is certainly for empowerment of women.

Girls are womb of humanity, nucleus of the family and are supposed to become fully participant citizens in our own countries.

I believe that raising the status of women in Turkey is a responsibility shared by everyone. It is not only in Turkey; we are still in need of serious support for the role of women in business and society all around the world.

We need to create a society where girls and women are getting the same encouragement and support to build their careers as the boys and men are. From the start.

So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress.

Women in Africa, generally a lot needs to be done for women. Women are not being educated, not only in Angola but my trip to Nigeria, one point I would make over and over again was that women need to be educated too.

We need to empower women. Give women a voice in the decision-making process. Give women a political voice where they can champion, for their own welfare. And, of course, for us. United Nations - organizations, agencies - we need to do our part.

Walmart's Global Women's Economic Empowerment Initiative is working to create opportunity and empower women and girls in markets around the world.

That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather, when women are empowered, when they can speak from the experience of their own lives, they often address different, previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit.

Women are emerging as a major force for change. Countries that have invested in girls' education and removed legal barriers that prevent women from achieving their potential are now seeing the benefits.

There is no war on women. Women are doing well. But women are thoughtful. And what we in the Republican Party and across the country, Republican, Independents and Democrat women say is we're more thoughtful than a label. We care about jobs and the economy and healthcare and education. We care about a lot of different things.

When women succeed, America succeeds.

Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s.

No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.

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.

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.