“It's really important to have those people in your life who push you to be better, different.” Quote by Jesse Peyronel
“The more connected you are to the work, the better it is.” PowerfulConnectedPowerful Women Author:Jesse Peyronel
“Sometimes a milk mustache is just a milk mustache.” SometimesPowerfulMilkPowerful WomenMustache Author:Jesse Peyronel
“Everything, and I mean everything, is about strong, powerful women.” MeanStrongPowerfulPowerful WomenStrong Powerful Women Author:Jesse Peyronel
“For the last time, you cannot wear that cropped fleece vest” LastsPowerfulLast TimePowerful WomenVestsFleece Author:Julie Andrews
“It is only when a woman is economically empowered that she can negotiate at household level with her husband about the number of children that body of hers can have.” ChildrenBodyLevelsNumbersHusbandHouseholdEmpoweredReproductive Rights Author:Joyce Banda
“It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.” ChildrenLongFactsBenefitsAccessAcceptedPlanningAvailabilitySave A LifeFamily PlanningReproductive Rights Author:Martha Plimpton
“From the woman who musters the courage to ask her husband to wear a condom, counter to cultural pressures, to the woman in Parliament who demands access to affordable reproductive health services for women who need them most, daring knows no scale or status.” KnowsNeedsAsksHusbandDemandPressureAccessScalesDaringParliamentAffordableCondomMusterReproductive RightsReproductive HealthHealth Services Author:Purnima Mane
“When we talk about 'reproductive rights' this is what we mean. It's the difference between people as objects, and people as agents: between regarding people as pawns on the policy chessboard and recognizing them as the players, the decision-makers, the drivers of policy; autonomous individuals intimately concerned with the direction of their own lives. Under these conditions women, especially, enjoy better health and live fuller lives.” PeopleMeanIndividualEnjoyDifferencesDecisionRightsPlayerConditionsPolicyObjectsConcernedAgentsDriversMakersRecognizingPawnsAutonomousDecision MakersReproductive Rights Author:Nafis Sadik
“Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant, but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision-makers. When women have the power to make choices about their families, they tend to decide precisely what demographers, economists, and development experts recommend. They invest in the long-term human capital of their families.” HumansLongChoicesTermDecisionPowerfulDevelopmentLong TermExpertsAssetsMakersEconomistDormantContraceptivesDecision MakersReproductive Rights Author:Melinda Gates
“I truly believe the only way we can create global peace is through not only educating our minds, but our hearts and our souls.” WayMindBelieveHeartSoulPowerfulPowerful WomenGlobal Peace Author:Malala Yousafzai