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

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 ca…

- Sheryl Wudunn

Our focus has to be on changing reality, not changing laws.

- Sheryl Wudunn

Decades from now, people will look back and wonder how societies could have acquiesced in a sex slave trade in the twenty-first century that is... bi…

- Sheryl Wudunn

In contrast, Western historians, and those in South Korea, say the North attacked the South on June 25, 1950. Both sides agree that after the war beg…

- Sheryl Wudunn

Women are not the problem they're the solution

- Sheryl Wudunn

If you economically empower a woman, she represents enormous opportunity that can actually be transformative not only for her family and for her comm…

- Sheryl Wudunn

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 …

- Sheryl Wudunn

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 mov…

- Sheryl Wudunn