Quotes by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon - Page 1

Giving birth to a baby does not make you an infant.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon / Journalist
Birth
Infant
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We do not invest in victims, we invest in survivors.
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Survivor
Victim
Invest
Survivors
Victims
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The United States will not be in Afghanistan forever.
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Afghanistan
Forever
United States
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I worked at ABCNews.com at a time when nobody knew what 'dot com' was.
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Single mothers are raising more of America's children than ever before.
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America
Children
Mother
Mothers
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The women of Afghanistan have a voice, and it needs to be heard and not forgotten.
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Afghanistan
Forgotten
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I think that sometimes people are frightened to take the risk of entrepreneurship.
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Entrepreneurship
Frightened
People Sometimes Think
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A lot has been said about single mothers. Most of it has been less than flattering.
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Flattering
Mother
Said
Mothers
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No one argues with the many benefits of breastfeeding for those women who choose it.
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Benefits
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Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one.
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Country
Inspiration
Motivation
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Educated mothers are 50 percent more likely to immunize their children than mothers with no schooling.
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Educated
Schooling
Children More Than
Mothers
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We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.
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War
Survivor
Victim
Pitied
Survivors
Victims
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What I learned at journalism school and at ABC - those skills are the same no matter where you are in the world.
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Journalism
Skills
Abc
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Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool ... but we must move beyond micro-hopes and micro-ambitions for women.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon / Journalist
Motivation
Moving
Powerful
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No woman in Afghanistan is in business without support from either her husband or her father or her uncle, someone.
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Afghanistan
Uncle
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The one thing you learn from looking at places like Afghanistan is that the power of business to do good is enormous.
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Afghanistan
Enormous
Good Business Power
Power Good Business
Business Good Power
The One Thing
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In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men.
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Ghana
Neighbor
Nigeria
Numbers
Women Are
African
Businesses
Women Men Numbers
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I'm a really bad driver. When I'm in L.A. my husband always has to park the car for me, because I'm likely to hit something.
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Car
Husband
Parks
Car Always Me
Hit
Driver
Likely
Park
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I think for larger-scale entrepreneurship, it's true - for men and women - that people who already have capital tend to do better.
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Entrepreneurship
Men And Women
Men Women Better
Capital
Women Men Better
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When people can't feed their children, nothing else positive happens. You don't have to look farther than the United States to see that.
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Feed
Farther
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Because microfinance is so manageable in terms of the size of the loan, people have made it the cornerstone to lifting women out of poverty.
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Lifting
Loan
Manageable
Poverty
Size
Cornerstone
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My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship.
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Academic
Maryland
Scholarship
University
Mother Me Never
Me Never Mother
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In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.
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Afghanistan
Army
Bureaucracy
Centuries
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A social entrepreneur finds market-based solutions for change. Because without a market-based solution, without a sustainable solution, you go nowhere.
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Entrepreneur
Nowhere
Sustainable
Finds
Solution
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Microfinance does not require previous experience or loans to the same extent as a small-business loan, so it's easier for women to enter the micro sector.
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Loan
Extent
Loans
Micro
Previous
Require
Sector
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If you're talking about entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict settings, then you must talk about women, because they are the population you have left.
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Entrepreneur
Population
Talking
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It is high time to declare an end to the breastfeeding dictatorship that is drowning women in guilt and worry just when they most need support: after the birth of a child.
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Birth
Dictatorship
Drowning
Guilt
Declare
High Time
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It matters whether women sit at the table. No one speaks up for you when you are standing outside with your nose pressed up against the glass. You cannot window-shop for power.
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Standing
Matters
Glass
Nose
Outside
Pressed
Sit
Speaks
Table
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Numerically speaking, half the population cannot be a minority. Yet when it comes to women, the numbers plainly show that the mathematically impossible is the socially acceptable.
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Acceptable
Numbers
Population
Mathematically
Minority
Plainly
Socially
Speaking
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In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able to report, and the kind of stories people will tell you.
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Afghanistan
Fragile
Life People Will
Life People Way
Affects
Report
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Certainly Afghans in general and women in particular want a country in which security is a daily reality rather than a campaign slogan or the focus of drive-by speeches from diplomats dropping in for the day.
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Diplomats
Dropping
Afghans
Slogan
Campaign
Daily
For The Day
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In Tunisia, where women have long enjoyed greater rights than many of their Arab neighbors, women pushed for and won a new electoral code that guarantees women will make up half of a candidates' list for office.
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Candidates
Code
Enjoyed
Guarantees
Tunisia
Arab
Electoral
List
Make Up
Neighbors
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I don't often think of Donald Trump, but his daughter is very smart. She's a woman working in real estate, which is predominantly men, and she's both savvy and articulate about her business and her business acumen.
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Daughter
Acumen
Savvy
Trump
Articulate
Donald
Donald Trump
Estate
Real Estate
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Educating girls just one year beyond the average fourth grade education increases their eventual earnings by 10 to 20 percent. Every additional year of secondary education can increase future wages by 15 to 25 percent.
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Average
Fourth
Just One
Secondary Education
Wages
Additional
Earnings
Educating
Eventual
Grade
Increases
Secondary
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The military alone cannot end the conflict in Afghanistan. On that much nearly everyone can agree, offering a rare island of consensus among sides otherwise divided on the question of how and when America's longest-ever war should wind down.
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Afghanistan
Agree
Conflict
Consensus
Divided
Offering
Sides
Wind
Rare
Nearly
Island
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Women in Afghanistan do not ask the United States to stay for the simple or sentimental reason of safeguarding their rights. They are the first ones to say that this is not enough of a reason for the world's remaining superpower to remain in their country.
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Afghanistan
Safeguarding
Sentimental
Remain
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Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there are people depending on them, I think that their creativity, their resilience, their spirit, embody what's best about entrepreneurship.
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Creativity
Economics
Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship
People
Resilience
Thinking
Depending
Embody
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My mother worked at the telephone company during the day and sold Tupperware at night. Evenings, she took classes when she could at University of Maryland's University College, bringing me along to do homework while she studied to get the degree she hoped would offer her and me greater opportunities.
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Homework
Maryland
University
Mother Me Day
Bringing
Me Night Day
Classes
Degree
Evenings
Hoped
Sold
Telephone
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The draconian prohibitions of the Taliban years and the gains Afghan women have achieved since the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001 are now well known and often cited: Today, Afghans lucky enough to live in secure regions can go to school, women may work in offices, and the burqa is no longer mandatory.
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Afghan
Draconian
Gains
Regions
Secure
Taliban
Well Known
Achieved
Cited
Mandatory
Offices
Overthrown
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The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined.
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Achievement
Birth
Business School
Family Values
Harvard
Lessons
Loss
Proven
Scholarship
Guided
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I think entrepreneurs are born and not created, and so I think you see a lot of similarities among entrepreneurs in different parts of the world. Their backdrop may be very different, but their drive to create a business and to create jobs remains very much the same, whether it's in Silicon Valley or Kandahar or Kabul.
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Jobs
Backdrop
Remains
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Among
Drive
Created
Different Parts
Entrepreneurs
Parts
Valley
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War reporters are often seen as a wild bunch of thrill-seekers who wade into danger zones simply for the sake of the adrenalin high the settings inevitably provide. But this one-dimensional explanation leaves out the core of the story, which is that reporters go to these places because they feel the tug of responsibility.
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Bunch
Core
Danger
Explanation
Reporters
Sake
Settings
Wade
Zone
Adrenalin
Wild
One-Dimensional
Inevitably
Leaves
Tug
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When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996 after a searing, four-year civil war, they immediately instituted laws which fit their utopic vision of the time of Islam's founding more than 1,300 years earlier. Afghan women's lives offered the most visible sign of the imagined past to which Afghanistan's present was to be returned.
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Afghan
Captured
Civil War
Founding
Islam
Taliban
Visible
Civil
War Time Women
Earlier
Immediately
Instituted
Offered
Returned
Sign
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The majority of Afghans do not see the Americans as foreign occupiers who must be defeated. Instead, they are hungry for the Americans to step up and help them make their country safer, their government cleaner and their economy stronger. They are disappointed because the international community has done too little, not too much.
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Defeated
Disappointed
Hungry
International Community
Majority
Stronger
Afghans
Cleaner
Safer
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