Sheryl WuDunn famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Our focus has to be on changing reality, not changing laws.
-- Sheryl WuDunn

#Reality #Law #Focus
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.
-- Sheryl WuDunn

#Opportunity #Community #Empowering
It's no accident that the countries that have enjoyed an economic take off have been those that educated girls and then gave them the autonomy to move to the cities to find work
-- Sheryl WuDunn

#Girl #Country #Moving
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.
-- Sheryl WuDunn

#Girl #Challenges #World
Decades from now, people will look back and wonder how societies could have acquiesced in a sex slave trade in the twenty-first century that is... bigger than the transatlantic slave trade was in the nineteenth. They will be perplexed that we shrugged as a lack of investment in maternal health caused half a million women to perish in childbirth each year.
-- Sheryl WuDunn

#Sex #Years #People
In contrast, Western historians, and those in South Korea, say the North attacked the South on June 25, 1950. Both sides agree that after the war began, the North Korean Army captured Seoul in three days and pushed as far south as Pusan before American troops arrived to drive back the North Koreans nearly as far north as the border to China.
-- Sheryl WuDunn

#War #Army #Korea
For lack of a few pinches of ordinary iodised table salt in the diet of a third world pregnant mother, a child can lose up to ten IQ (Intelligence Quotient) points.
-- Sheryl WuDunn

#Mother #Children #World
The tools to crush modern slavery exist, but the political will is lacking.
-- Sheryl WuDunn

#Crush #Political #Slavery
When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.
-- Sheryl WuDunn

#Empowerment #Development #Clear
Women are not the problem they're the solution
-- Sheryl WuDunn

#Empowering #Problem #Solutions

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