Helene D. Gayle Quotes

I convinced myself economic empowerment of women was going to be key, especially in a country like this where most women didn't go to school.

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

Wealth may not necessarily be the decisive element in the progress of women, but it does create the conditions for further emancipation and equality.

There should be whole-hearted, full commitment to remove poverty - only we are doing it.

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

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.

Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.

I hope that through Fast Forward, we can encourage women everywhere to know their power wherever they find themselves; to find their purpose; and to connect with others in order to create a better world - especially for women and girls.

In America, the problems of poverty and low income, particularly for minorities, are disproportionately focused in the inner cities. Shining a spotlight on the businesses growing in these communities is proof that any community has the potential for entrepreneurship.

I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.

The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.

In India, at the community level, young men are playing an absolutely essential role in changing the cultural norms and deeply held practices concerning women. They are doing this in a way that not only empowers women and girls, but really empowers the young men as well.

We know we cannot achieve our twin goals of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity without ending poverty and creating equality for women and girls.

I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.

If you economically empower a woman, she represents enormous opportunity that can actually be transformative not only for her family and for her community, but at the aggregate level for the economy.

Women are now in the situation of the mass of mankind a few years since, when science and learning were in the hands of priests, and property was held by vassalage.

This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

Prohibiting Poverty

We will not rest until this war [on poverty] is won.

Women and girls transform societies.

A universal voucher program would change the face of poverty in this country.

Every day, women and girls are finding incredible confidence and taking risks. When they change one mind, pretty soon, they have changed one tradition. That changed tradition has changed a village. That one village has changed a country. That new reality means new opportunities for themselves and their daughters.

The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.

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