Quotes About Development

The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

Centuries ago it may have been difficult for pregnant women and their children to get proper nourishment, probably leading to smaller - and therefore shorter-lived - adults.

We know what to do and we know how to do it, these investments save lives, empower women and girls, strengthen health systems and have a profound and lasting impact on development.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.

Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.

Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served.

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital that is conducive to development, peace, justice and civility.

We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a 'dark continent' for psychology.

Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty.

Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but a reputation for sterility.

The [Wal-Mart] corporate culture lagged way behind many other American corporations in terms of making progress on women's issues, and that had a lot to do with being based in northwest Arkansas.

Until the sky is the limit [for women], as it is for men, men as well as women will suffer, because all society is affected when half of it is denied equal opportunity for full development.

Up until age 40, most men are just not as mature as women. So, it makes sense that a lot of women date up in age a bit.

Our Matru Shakti is our pride. Women empowerment is very crucial to our development.

Miriam Were has made outstanding contributions to public health in the developing world. She brings basic medical services to women and children in East Africa.

It's a proven fact that when you raise the status of girls and women in a country, that country does much better economically.

We are worse off - all of us, including men and boys - if our society is not developing and empowering 100% of the resources of humanity, including women and girls.

Girls who lead turn in to women who thrive.