20 Quotes by Sheryl WuDunn

...when women gain control over spending, less family money is devoted to instant gratification and more for education and starting small businesses.

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

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... bigger than the transatlantic slave trade was in the nineteenth. They will be perplexed that we shrugged as a lack of investment in maternal health caused half a million women to perish in childbirth each year.

...cultural barriers can be overcome relatively swiftly where there is the political will to do so.

The men want to be included; they don't want to be seen as the ennemy.

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.

If something is really outrageous, it doesn't matter if it is one culture, or another, it's outrageous.

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.

The tools to crush modern slavery exist, but the political will is lacking.