"...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women."

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Source : Twitter post from May 11, 2016

Kofi Annan

#Inspiring Quotes #Empowerment Quotes #Tools Quotes

“I am absolutely intrigued by life, and I really want to hold onto it.”
“In our totality we are born of the Earth. Our spirituality itself is earth-derived... If there is no spirituality in the earth, then there is no spirituality in ourselves”
“I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey”
“Every path serves a purpose.”
“I wouldn't say that I was an actress. I tried to be an actress. I really didn't have the gift.”
“There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. Government never makes ends meetand that is the first requisite of business.”
“A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.”
“No longer is drinking an art with Americans; once they drank for the taste, but now they drink only for the effect. The more quick and fatal the liquor, the better they like it. They are either on the wagon or else.”

Source : Alice-Leone Moats (1933). “No Nice Girl Swears”, New York : A. A. Knopf

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