"Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country."

-- Isabel Allende

#Country Quotes #Children Quotes #Giving Quotes

“It's surely summer. for there's a swallow: Come one swallow, his mate will follow, The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken.”
“My communication with aliens is not verbal - we speak the language of light.”
“I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.”
“I did theatre a lot when I was a kid. Then I went to acting school in New York. I did a lot of behind the scenes in college. I wanted to learn while I had the time. I studied theatre and film in different capacities.”
“Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.”
“Every now and then I have to teach directing. The thing about the theatre is that the most important thing you can do as a director is to make sure that everybody is in the same world - you have to create the world and make sure everyone buys into it.”

Source : "Nothing is the hardest thing to do". Interview with Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2003.
“Make your life a story worth telling,”

Source : "Adam Braun: How He Started Pencils of Promise". Interview with Dan Schawbel, www.forbes.com. March 18, 2014.
“It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.”

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