- Enmity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women Quotes
On confidence, identity and being true to yourself.
These quotes discuss women's confidence and identity from a few angles: resisting pressure to act a certain way, and the discipline shown by women serving alongside men in the military. For related reflections, see our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
I have seen the transformative effect that education has in the lives of young women and their communities.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money is hardly neutral. Its connection to power makes it a highly charged social phenomenon and a mediator of relationships. Because it has historically been controlled by men, it has given men a tool for controlling women.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women's vulnerability around money is hardly exclusive to Africa. Throughout the world, women struggle with financial power. In the West, women's financial literacy is notably lower than men's. That lack of knowledge means that many women slide into poverty when they become widows.
- Demonstrating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Camfed graduates are active in their villages using their skills and resources to improve as many lives as possible. They are teaching financial literacy to marginalized women and bringing vital health care information to rural schoolchildren. Through example, they are demonstrating the power of philanthropy.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never take your eye off the ball. Always remember that you and everyone on the team is the servant of the cause - in our case, girls' education and young women's leadership in Africa.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the family pattern, men support boys and women support girls, and because women have far fewer financial resources, there is less money to invest in girls.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
If women have an income, they will invest a higher proportion of that income in their children than men do. So you do get those societal returns very quickly.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
For more than 20 years, Camfed has supported a generation of African girls and women with access to secondary and higher education, employment opportunities, and, ultimately, into positions of leadership.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted.
- Nov 07, 2020
If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact.
- Demanded
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
By boosting oversight and accountability, we can empower the VA in its core mission of helping the men and women who have served our country.
- Decade
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- Nov 07, 2020
The '70s was a decade that was crammed with prominent women science fiction writers, and a lot of women made their debut in that decade or really came to prominence.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020