Top 48 Tzemach Lemmon Quotes
#2. Women who choose to breastfeed should get as much education and support as possible.
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#3. My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship.
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#5. The one thing you learn from looking at places like Afghanistan is that the power of business to do good is enormous.
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#6. The military alone cannot end the conflict in Afghanistan. On that much nearly everyone can agree, offering a rare island of consensus among sides otherwise divided on the question of how and when America's longest-ever war should wind down.
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#7. In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able to report, and the kind of stories people will tell you.
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#8. I don't often think of Donald Trump, but his daughter is very smart. She's a woman working in real estate, which is predominantly men, and she's both savvy and articulate about her business and her business acumen.
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#9. Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there are people depending on them, I think that their creativity, their resilience, their spirit, embody what's best about entrepreneurship.
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#10. Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one.
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#11. Certainly Afghans in general and women in particular want a country in which security is a daily reality rather than a campaign slogan or the focus of drive-by speeches from diplomats dropping in for the day.
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#13. A social entrepreneur finds market-based solutions for change. Because without a market-based solution, without a sustainable solution, you go nowhere.
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#14. Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool ... but we must move beyond micro-hopes and micro-ambitions for women.
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#15. It is high time to declare an end to the breastfeeding dictatorship that is drowning women in guilt and worry just when they most need support: after the birth of a child.
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#16. I'm a really bad driver. When I'm in L.A. my husband always has to park the car for me, because I'm likely to hit something.
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#17. In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men.
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#18. Microfinance does not require previous experience or loans to the same extent as a small-business loan, so it's easier for women to enter the micro sector.
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#20. This is an opportunity for failure as much as it is one to succeed. Do not block out the voices of opposition, study them and defeat their words and prejudices through brilliant action.
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#21. wanted to know what war was like for those who had been left behind: the women who managed to keep going even as their world fell apart.
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#22. No one argues with the many benefits of breastfeeding for those women who choose it.
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#23. No woman in Afghanistan is in business without support from either her husband or her father or her uncle, someone.
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#24. It matters whether women sit at the table. No one speaks up for you when you are standing outside with your nose pressed up against the glass. You cannot window-shop for power.
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#25. This was a mental game as much as a physical challenge, designed to reinforce the fact that staying focused and motivated is absolutely critical to mission success and basic survival in war.
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#26. The mission has not yet run its course. Don't limit your actions in pursuit of success. Take a measured course and a wide berth within your lines of operation. Show us all what you are capable of.
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#27. What I found in Kabul was a sisterhood unlike any I had seen before, marked by empathy, laughter, courage, curiosity about the world, and above all a passion for work.
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#29. When people can't feed their children, nothing else positive happens. You don't have to look farther than the United States to see that.
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#30. A lot has been said about single mothers. Most of it has been less than flattering.
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#31. Educating girls just one year beyond the average fourth grade education increases their eventual earnings by 10 to 20 percent. Every additional year of secondary education can increase future wages by 15 to 25 percent.
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#32. I think for larger-scale entrepreneurship, it's true - for men and women - that people who already have capital tend to do better.
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#33. What I learned at journalism school and at ABC - those skills are the same no matter where you are in the world.
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#34. Don't tell people what you're going to do, or what kind of person you are. Just show them.
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#35. Women in Afghanistan do not ask the United States to stay for the simple or sentimental reason of safeguarding their rights. They are the first ones to say that this is not enough of a reason for the world's remaining superpower to remain in their country.
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#36. If you're talking about entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict settings, then you must talk about women, because they are the population you have left.
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#37. The women of Afghanistan have a voice, and it needs to be heard and not forgotten.
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#38. Educated mothers are 50 percent more likely to immunize their children than mothers with no schooling.
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#39. I brought my daughter today because I wanted her to know what a hero was," the woman said, holding the hand of a little girl. "And I wanted her to know girls could be heroes, too.
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#40. In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.
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#41. Because microfinance is so manageable in terms of the size of the loan, people have made it the cornerstone to lifting women out of poverty.
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#42. In Tunisia, where women have long enjoyed greater rights than many of their Arab neighbors, women pushed for and won a new electoral code that guarantees women will make up half of a candidates' list for office.
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#43. We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.
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#44. Amber wanted to see special operations open to women and she believed they all should have a shot at going to Ranger School but only if there were no shortcuts, no dumbing down of any of the requirements, the same standards for everyone. And everyone would have the chance to meet them. T
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#45. She (Kamila Sidiqi) believes strongly that Afghans can shape their own future using business to create a healthy economy that offers opportunity and a chance at a better and more peaceful tomorrow."
~in other words capitalism!(my words)
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#46. Numerically speaking, half the population cannot be a minority. Yet when it comes to women, the numbers plainly show that the mathematically impossible is the socially acceptable.
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#47. I think that sometimes people are frightened to take the risk of entrepreneurship.
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