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Quotes About Development

Long live Grameen Bank. Let the power of poor women prevail.
~ Muhammad Yunus
Women developed it as an art. They've had to, in order to survive. The problem is that it limits you. You are in a controlling situation in duality.
~ Frederick Lenz
I know full well how important women are in diplomacy and development. I grew up with seven sisters.
~ Ronan Farrow
I have many women executives. I always have. When I was back in the construction days, the big construction days, I had women in charge of big developments.
~ Donald Trump
The job of the baby is to learn.
~ Elizabeth Spelke
In the case of the brujos, the sorcerers in Mexico, the Spanish Conquest forced them to develop their second attention.
~ Frederick Lenz
When women thrive, economies thrive.
~ Hillary Clinton
It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows.
~ Hillary Clinton
Our global future depends on the willingness of every nation to invest in its people, especially women and children.
~ Hillary Clinton
If you educate women, family size tends to go down.
~ Jane Goodall
Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop.
~ Jane Goodall
As long as children and young men and women find pleasure in study, they will continue studying throughout life - and upon that depends their happiness.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
You can't marry boys and expect them to be men - and you can't massage them into being men.
~ Laura Schlessinger
A lot of people do what we call neurotic things in order to repair their childhood.
~ Laura Schlessinger
When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning their chops.
~ Lynda Obst
The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.
~ Mark Twain
It's an objective fact, that if you want to solve some of these huge, kind of bigger problems of extreme poverty, you have to include the women. They're the ones who will get it done.
~ Matt Damon
Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.
~ Melinda Gates
Of course, in our country, developing in a region with somewhat conservative traditions, women were desperately needed to be more engaged - socially, economically, politically.
~ Queen Noor of Jordan
What women have achieved in the last 50 years, I wish men would have achieved in the last 100.
~ Oscar de la Renta
I come from a family of tall, curvy women. I developed in my body and my shape far earlier, so from a young age I accepted it. I embraced it and saw it as an advantage.
~ Ricki-Lee Coulter
Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.
~ Rod Stewart
I want to tell women in developing countries that they are as powerful as their male counterparts, and they can play an equal role in their respective societies.
~ Samina Baig
Topologically, men and women are identical. Some things are just larger and more developed in one than the other and positioned differently.
~ Samuel R. Delany