Educate Girls Quotes

#1. One of the best ways to fight poverty and to fight terrorism is to educate girls and bring women into the formal labor force.

Sheryl WuDunn

#2. If you can educate girls, you can change the world.

Cathie Black

#3. To educate girls is to reduce poverty

Kofi Annan

#4. Boosting education will be a direct counterbalance to Boko Haram's appeal. In particular we must educate more young girls, ensuring they will grow up to be empowered through learning to play their full part as citizens of Nigeria and pull themselves up and out of poverty.

Muhammadu Buhari

#5. The verb that's been enforced on girls is to please. Girls are trained to please ... I want us all to change the verb. I want the verb to be educate, or activate, or engage, or confront, or defy, or create.

Eve Ensler

#6. If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.

Anna Seward

#7. I am very grateful for the success, because it has given me the freedom to write without pressure, in my own way, and has enabled me to maintain my family and educate my children and grandchildren, as well as to create a Foundation to empower women and girls.

Isabel Allende

#8. All people need to know how AIDS is transmitted, and every country has an obligation to educate its citizens. This is why every country must also improve literacy, especially for women and girls, so that they can make wise choices that will keep them healthy and safe.

Laura Bush