Kathy Calvin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Tomorrow is Now... If we act, 2015 can be a year for the history books. It can be the year that we put the world on the path to end extreme poverty; the year we place sustainability at the heart of our future; and the year that we agree that every person should be able to lead a life of dignity and opportunity.
-- Kathy Calvin

#Book #Heart #Opportunity
Change always starts with a girl,
-- Kathy Calvin

#Girl
Young people aren't the leaders of tomorrow. They are the leaders of today and tomorrow.
-- Kathy Calvin

#People #Leader #Today
Gender data is important. If girls donâ€™t have a birth certificate, how do we know how many are marrying as children?
-- Kathy Calvin

#Girl #Children #Data
Global is a unifying bond for people. Once they get outside their own heads and their own communities and see themselves in a broader framework, it really changes their sense of what they can get done. It all adds up for us.
-- Kathy Calvin

#People #Community #Add
The resilience and the resourcefulness of people to make a better life, to survive, to give their children something better than they had, is so inspiring. I look at how hard it must be to get up every day and fight that battle and I think, Wow, anything I'm doing just has to be in service.
-- Kathy Calvin

#Children #Fighting #Thinking
If you can get to a girl and make a difference in her life, you're actually going to have a greater impact on a woman's life. If you don't get to her as a girl, you may not be able ever to help her as a woman.
-- Kathy Calvin

#Girl #Impact #Differences
Being poor is not like being a victim. Being poor means that you don't have one resource.
-- Kathy Calvin

#Mean #Poor #Victim
I'm inspired by the resilience of people around the world.
-- Kathy Calvin

#People #Resilience #World
I'm a positive person who likes to see things get done.
-- Kathy Calvin

#Done #Likes #Persons
Collaboration gets me excited.
-- Kathy Calvin

#Collaboration #Excited
It's harder to be a poor person than anything else.
-- Kathy Calvin

#Poor #Harder #Persons
Phones are powerful at providing information.
-- Kathy Calvin

#Powerful #Phones #Information
Women and girls have been my passion for my whole life.
-- Kathy Calvin

#Girl #Passion #Whole Life
You probably don't think twice about going into your kitchen and turning a few knobs to prepare a meal for yourself and your family on an electric or gas range. But for nearly 3 billion people in developing countries who depend on solid fuels to cook their food, the simple act of cooking results in 4 million premature deaths every year from exposure to toxic smoke.
-- Kathy Calvin

#Country #Simple #Thinking

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