Laura Bush Quotes

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.

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.

In our tribal areas the literacy rate among women is 3%; among men, 17%; and there is no economy.

Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.

There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world.

A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.

If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of infant mortality the answer is to educate girls.

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 suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them.

People say Malala's voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala's voice reaching the world and resonating globally. You should think about what is behind Malala's voice. What is she saying? I am only talking about education, women's rights, and peace.

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

The important thing to note is that it is not important whether Malala was shot or not - Malala is not asking for personal favors or support. She is asking for support with girls' education and women's rights. So don't support Malala, support her campaign for girls' education and women's rights.

I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia.

The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.

She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.

Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too.

In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some countries they even mutilate women.

If we create a generation of men who aren't getting an education, that's bad for women.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

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

The Muslim women have a no lesser role than that of men in the war of liberation; they manufacture men and play a great role in guiding and educating the [new] generation …

I regret the trifling narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.

The Taliban Nightmare: A girl with a book.

Saudi women far outnumber their male counterparts on university campuses but are reduced to watching men far less qualified control every aspect of their lives.