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“When we liberate the economic potential of women, we elevate the economic performance of communities, nations, and the world... There is a stimulative and ripple effect that kicks in when women have greater access to jobs and the economic lives of our countries: Greater political stability. Fewer military conflicts. More food. More educational opportunity for children... By harnessing the economic potential of all women, we boost opportunity for all people.”

“As the feminist saying goes, 'Women deliver.' In other words, when women control resources, the social gain is greater than when men control resources.”

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Author:Linda Gordon

“Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.”

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Book:The pursuit of happiness: a novel

Source: The pursuit of happiness: a novel

“Our real battlefield today is Asia and our real battle is the one between democracy and communism. . . . We have to prove to the world and particularly to downtrodden areas of the world which are the natural prey to the principles of communist economics that democracy really brings about happier and better conditions for the people as a whole.”

Source: Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman

“Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.”

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Author:Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

“You should choose organisations that are going to be flexible and supportive and recognise people are going through different stages in their careers and actually need different sorts of support.”

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Author:Gail Kelly

“If I'm watching my son play soccer, that's what I'm doing. If I'm going to a school concert, that's what I'm doing. I turn the phone off. I actively tune into whatever I'm doing. I walk every evening with one of my sons and for that half an hour, 45 minutes, that's what I'm doing.”

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Author:Gail Kelly

“It doesn't matter what business you're in. It is the people who achieve things, not capital, and the great advantage for us is that I think women have always known this.”

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Author:Janet Holmes a Court

“It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.”

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Author:Queen Elizabeth II

“We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.”

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Author:Clara Zetkin