Kathy Calvin Quotes

#1. One of the things that people aren't aware of is how much progress is being made in eradicating poverty and providing a healthier life and longevity for people around the world.

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#2. Gender data is important. If girls don't have a birth certificate, how do we know how many are marrying as children?

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#3. I'm inspired by the resilience of people around the world.

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#4. Being poor is not like being a victim. Being poor means that you don't have one resource.

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#5. The resilience and the resourcefulness of people to make a better life, to survive, to give their children something better than they had, is so inspiring. I look at how hard it must be to get up every day and fight that battle and I think, Wow, anything I'm doing just has to be in service.

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#6. Change always starts with a girl,

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#7. Collaboration gets me excited.

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#8. It's harder to be a poor person than anything else.

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#9. When the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly all those countries had burgeoning democracies, women were still being left out. The big turning point, about ten years ago, was moving from a notion of empowering women to actually looking at where you can make the most difference, and it's in a girl's life.

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#10. Young people aren't the leaders of tomorrow. They are the leaders of today and tomorrow.

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#11. I'm a positive person who likes to see things get done.

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#12. Women and girls have been my passion for my whole life.

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#13. Global is a unifying bond for people. Once they get outside their own heads and their own communities and see themselves in a broader framework, it really changes their sense of what they can get done. It all adds up for us.

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#14. Phones are powerful at providing information.

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#15. If you can get to a girl and make a difference in her life, you're actually going to have a greater impact on a woman's life. If you don't get to her as a girl, you may not be able ever to help her as a woman.

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