"Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work."

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Source : "The Promise of Africa’s Women" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2013.

Richard Attias

#African Women Quotes

“The most fun is getting paid to learn things.”
“Everyone's God is One.”
“Before the discovery of these [underwater] vents, all life on Earth, the key to life on Earth, was believed to be the sun and photosynthesis. But down there, there is no sun, there is no photosynthesis; it's chemosynthetic environment down there driving it, and it's all so ephemeral.”
“You can't do science in a novel, but you can do philosophy. Or, if you're really lucky, you can manage to pose a question in such a way that other people will take it on.”
“I think every job that I've done to this point has had something new to challenge me.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.”
“My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.”
“The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic.”

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