Top 30 Sheryl Wudunn Quotes
#1. If you economically empower a woman, she represents enormous opportunity that can actually be transformative not only for her family and for her community, but at the aggregate level for the economy.
Sheryl WuDunn
#2. For lack of a few pinches of ordinary iodised table salt in the diet of a third world pregnant mother, a child can lose up to ten IQ (Intelligence Quotient) points.
Sheryl WuDunn
#3. One of the ways to be happy, to be truly happy, is to contribute to a cause that is greater than yourself. And, through Harvard-based research, we can see that happy people live longer.
Sheryl WuDunn
#6. When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.
Sheryl WuDunn
#7. Siddhartha Gautama said that "life has dissatisfaction" (dukkha). He didn't say that "life is suffering and nothing but suffering" - only that we all suffer in larger or smaller ways.
Doug Kraft
#8. 2If you love kids; if you love kids with grit; and above all, if you want to make a difference, back programs that inspire children to realize that they can grow up to be more than pawns.
Nicholas D. Kristof And Sheryl WuDunn
#11. If something is really outrageous, it doesn't matter if it is one culture, or another, it's outrageous.
Sheryl WuDunn
#12. I have seen too many screenwriters of promise become formula addicts and slaves to stop watch structure. Spend that time watching movies, reading screenplays, reading plays, and most importantly - write from your gut.
John Fusco
#13. Give the reader hell. Stretch the reader.
Martin Amis
#14. The motivations of a scientist are always mixed and complex ... every medical student has the desire to do good in the world. Making a small contribution to that effort is really in a sense the last significant thing that I want to do with my life.
Gustav Nossal
#15. Your only stumbling block is the man in the mirror
Thabiso Monkoe
#16. Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed to find the right words. I succeeded in confusing people. I've made mistakes - that's probably one of them.
Rowan Williams
#17. In the same way that slavery was a moral challenge for the 19th century and totalitarianism was a challenge for the 20th century, the challenge that women and girls face around the world is the moral challenge of our time.
Sheryl WuDunn
#18. People want to be happy, so they don't want to feel as though they're mired in this world of ugliness. I think that if people can recognize that you can actually help and change that ugliness, then you'll feel a lot better about yourself as well, and that does create a certain amount of happiness.
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#19. When India feels that the West cares as much about slavery as it does about pirated DVDs, it will dispatch people to the borders to stop traffickers.
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#20. When women gain control over spending, less family money is devoted to instant gratification and more for education and starting small businesses.
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#21. Our focus has to be on changing reality, not changing laws.
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#22. It's funny how when you're up so late at night for so long your mind can get into these creative places, the kind of creative places that come to you when you're halfway between asleep and awake.
Steve Wozniak
#23. Cultural barriers can be overcome relatively swiftly where there is the political will to do so.
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#24. [S]ex trafficking and mass rape should no more be seen as women's issues than slavery was a black issue or the Holocaust was a Jewish issue. These are all humanitarian concerns, transcending any one race, gender, or creed.
Nicholas D. Kristof And Sheryl WuDunn
#25. It's no accident that the countries that have enjoyed an economic take off have been those that educated girls and then gave them the autonomy to move to the cities to find work
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#26. I very much want to inject gay culture into the mainstream. It's not an underground tool for me. It's my whole life.
Lady Gaga
#27. We all have won the lottery of life. How do we discharge that responsibility?
Sheryl WuDunn
#28. Don't place your dreams in the hands of those whom can destroy them.
Paulo Coelho
#29. The tools to crush modern slavery exist, but the political will is lacking.
Sheryl WuDunn
#30. 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
