M. Carey Thomas Quotes

One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge economic benefits.

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.

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

I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women's rights, and I'm not a woman.

Elevating the status of women is our best path to peace, justice, and prosperity on a global scale.

I've been a staunch advocate of women's empowerment, and I've worked hard throughout my career to advance the cause. It is heartening to see that gender equality is really becoming more of a reality. There is still much more to be done, and I'm confident that, by working together, we can empower women worldwide.

Tunisia's democratic development depends on removing the obstacles that women fact in all fields.

We know that society is better - more prosperous, more stable, more peaceful, more cohesive - when women's rights are respected and when women are valued, empowered, and lead the way in our communities.

As the father of two daughters, the ongoing struggle for women's equality is very personal for me. That's why it has been an honor during my time in Congress to support women's rights by advocating for reproductive rights, equal pay, access to paid maternity leave and quality child care.

To give women more opportunity, women's empowerment is very, very close to my heart.

When I became a professor of physics circa 1991, I doubled the number of female professors of physics in the U.K.

Canada knows that for a society to be prosperous and more just and more peaceful, women and girls must be educated.

There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.

Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.

It is of very doubtful value to enlist the gifts of a woman into fields that have been defined as male; it frightens the men, unsexes the women, and muffles and distorts the contribution women could make.

Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

One of the best ways to fight poverty and to fight terrorism is to educate girls and bring women into the formal labor force.

I see that one part of the education of women is health education. We know that women who are educated have much healthier families.

Equality for women is progress for all.

What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!

A democracy depends on the full integration of women into society, especially on seeing to it that they have equal access to the same tools of opportunity as men.

I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.

But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

Grounded in international human rights, gender equality doesn’t just improve the lives of individual women, girls, and their families; it makes economic sense, strengthens democracy, and enables long-term sustainable progress.

I firmly believe that if you help a woman, then you educate a child, you help the family. Because women are very focused on health care and education and on the family. So if you help a woman, you help the family, you help the village, you help the country. And so empowering women is a very important part of moving, not just women forward, but the economy of the nation forward. Particularly in very substandard nations.