Khaled Hosseini Quotes

The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.

If women are the key to Africa's future - and I believe they are - we must figure out how to take away the barriers to their participation.

Women are the social conscience of a country. They hold our societies together.

It is the woman who controls the whole house...it's her job, that's what she's supposed to do...We have to change this idea that women are not only supposed to work in the house...but she also has the ability to go outside and do business, to be a doctor, to be a teacher, to be an engineer, she should be allowed to have any job she likes. She should be treated equally, as men are.

one sex of voice in public matters, and that we could in no way so increase the attention , the intelligence and the devotion which may be brought to the solution of social problems as by enfranchising our women .

American women were frustrated in just the role of housewife - but they also managed to enlarge it. And they weren't just housewives, they were community leaders.

To transform the world women need to demand their place - which is not equal, but superior.

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.

Certainly Tunisia was the first in Muslim world. It's been like that for a long time and women play an important part in Tunisia. There are women in all professions. Doctors, dentists, lawyers, politicians, journalists and so on.

We think that Hillary [Clinton] will be a symbol and a reality for the women of the world, and it's very important because so many - so many underdeveloped countries, not the least of which is Afghanistan, the women of the world need help, and she understands those issues and is a lightning rod for them.

If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.

So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

We had like a jolt of women in country, and it seems like we're just kind of there now.

I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.

The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.

Women are the real architects of society.

Women's sport helps break down a lot of barriers for women in other areas, whether in religion or politics.

My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society.

There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men.

Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.

In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.

The country needs the political work of women today as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time.

The draconian prohibitions of the Taliban years and the gains Afghan women have achieved since the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001 are now well known and often cited: Today, Afghans lucky enough to live in secure regions can go to school, women may work in offices, and the burqa is no longer mandatory.