Kofi Annan Quotes

As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.

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

Why are fanatics so terrified of girls' education? Because there's no force more powerful to transform a society. The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

Girls' education is no silver bullet. Iran and Saudi Arabia have both educated girls but refused to empower them, so both remain mired in the past. But when a country educates and unleashes women, those educated women often become force multipliers for good.

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

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.

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

One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.

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

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 a reason you keep hearing about the power of educating girls in the developing world. It's a reason so simple that you will probably view it with suspicion, as I once did. It's this: educating girls works. Really works.

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.

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

We are not in Afghanistan because girls were not allowed to go to school, but helping them do so will give the Afghan people hope for a better future.

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'

In order to stabilize human population growth, we must prioritize the education of girls, the empowerment of women, the provision of ubiquitous access to the knowledge and techniques of fertility management, and the continued raising of child survival rates.

In the long term, female education may be the best way to advance the status of women.

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

If girl’s do not get educated, they cannot educate the next generation. We are looking at three billion children who were born to women who could not read.

The Taliban Nightmare: A girl with a book.

Canada truly understands that girls and women who have access to a safe and high-quality education is a priority.

When we tell girls that we expect them to pursue education and excel in education, we are changing the narrative and are opening the door to the leaders of our future.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.

Young women who want an education will not be stopped

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.