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“Poverty is not being able to protect your family. Poverty is not being able to save your children when mothers with more money could. And because the strongest instinct of a mother is to protect her children, poverty is the most disempowering force on earth.”
― The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
― The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
“Being a feminist means believing that every woman should be able to use her voice and pursue her potential, and that women and men should all work together to take down the barriers and end the biases that still hold women back.”
― The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
― The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
“That is why we women have to lift each other up—not to replace men at the top of the hierarchy, but to become partners with men in ending hierarchy.”
― The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
― The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
“. Their normal is shattered. I tried to talk to people about, “This is your new normal. We’ve got to find a way of making life with this new set of circumstances.” You can’t get them back their old life,’ he says.”
― Any Ordinary Day
― Any Ordinary Day
“Every society says its outsiders are the problem. But the outsiders are not the problem; the urge to create outsiders is the problem. Overcoming that urge is our greatest challenge and our greatest promise. It will take courage and insight, because the people we push to the margins are the ones who trigger in us the feelings we're afraid of.”
― The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
― The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
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