Isabel Allende Quotes

When you empower women and help them thrive, you help their communities thrive. Women shoulder the burden disproportionately.

Unfortunately, violence against women is not the only injustice women face globally; it is one of the many inequalities that impede the full development of socially excluded women globally.

Empower us women and we will change this whole entire world.

Women's voices not being heard is the root of many of the problems of the world.

The strength of women and women's rights around the world are especially important because that affects children and families. And the cascade effect is remarkable.

It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.

In the same way that slavery was a moral challenge for the 19th century and totalitarianism was a challenge for the 20th century, the challenge that women and girls face around the world is the moral challenge of our time.

We think it is in our nation's interest that Afghan women - or any women around the world - not suffer.

The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty.

Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital that is conducive to development, peace, justice and civility.

The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom.

What we are learning around the world is that if women are healthy and educated, their families will flourish. If women are free from violence, their families will flourish. If women have a chance to work and earn as full and equal partners in society, their families will flourish. And when families flourish, communities and nations do as well.

Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women

It cannot be doubted that in most countries today women, in comparison to men, still remain underprivileged.

The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.

When we liberate the economic potential of women, we elevate the economic performance of communities, nations, and the world.

The revolution and women's liberation go together. We do not talk of women's emancipation as an act of charity or out of a surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the revolution to triumph. Women hold up the other half of the sky.

Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.

When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.

The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the Book of Genesis, the very oldest.

Once you have women liberated, it's amazing how many other problems get resolved--pover ty, education, health. Women are the key in any community.

...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.