Top 28 Wudunn Sheryl 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
#4. How can you fight stupidity effectively? The answer is simple: it's not easy.
William C. Brown
#5. The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up.
Rene Cassin
#6. Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
Duffy Daugherty
#7. When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.
Sheryl WuDunn
#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. Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.
Christopher Lasch
#14. Well, that's not what the Bible preaches. It says if you know the truth, it'll set you free.
Sue Monk Kidd
#15. I can tell you, Jay, nothing that happens in this life is worth killing yourself over. Time passes, and you can decide to change your future. You don't let what some assholes say or do, direct you. In this life, it only matters what you do with it.
Nicole Reed
#16. 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
#17. 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.
Sheryl WuDunn
#18. 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.
Sheryl WuDunn
#19. When women gain control over spending, less family money is devoted to instant gratification and more for education and starting small businesses.
Sheryl WuDunn
#20. Our focus has to be on changing reality, not changing laws.
Sheryl WuDunn
#21. Cultural barriers can be overcome relatively swiftly where there is the political will to do so.
Sheryl WuDunn
#22. [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
#23. The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad.
Leon Redbone
#24. Luck is luck ... What we do with it determines whether it's good or bad.
Nora Roberts
#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
Sheryl WuDunn
#26. We all have won the lottery of life. How do we discharge that responsibility?
Sheryl WuDunn
#27. The tools to crush modern slavery exist, but the political will is lacking.
Sheryl WuDunn
#28. 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
