It's important to underscore this overriding fact: women are not just victims of conflict-they are agents of peace and agents of change.
Hillary ClintonRead
When women thrive, economies thrive.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The success of economies is linked to the empowerment and success of women.
Hillary Clinton's quote emphasizes the critical role that women play in economic development. When women are given opportunities to succeed in all aspects of society, including education, employment, and leadership, the entire economy benefits from their participation, innovation, and contributions. This highlights the necessity of fostering gender equality as a pathway to overall prosperity and growth.
Themes
WomenEconomyThriveEmpowermentSuccess
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech at a women's leadership conference.
More from Hillary Clinton
All quotes βThe worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.
Hillary ClintonRead
First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave.
Hillary ClintonRead
The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.
Hillary ClintonRead
I feel like every day, every minute I have to make the most of.
Hillary ClintonRead
It does not matter what country we live in, who our leaders are, or even who we are. Because we are human, we therefore have rights. And because we have rights, governments are bound to protect them.
Hillary ClintonRead
Similar quotes
For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty
Thabo MbekiRead
I think that when you emigrate, when everything you took for granted disappears, it's a kind of loss of innocence. When you're a kid, the world as you know it is just there. Suddenly, you emigrate and that's no longer the case. It's a break in reality that parachutes you into adulthood.
Masha GessenRead
No evolution is accomplished in nature without revolution. Periods of very slow changes are succeeded by periods of violent changes. Revolutions are as necessary for evolution as the slow changes which prepare them and succeed them.
Peter KropotkinRead
We must rediscover our faith in the future and join with one another to ensure that nonviolence is the prevalent choice for government, law enforcement, the non-profit sector, business, education, media, entertainment, arts, and for the global citizenry.
Bernice KingRead
One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters β whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished.
Paulo CoelhoRead
The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not disqualified from acting in response to it.
Sandra Day O'ConnorRead