Quotes from Sheryl WuDunn

When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.

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.

We all have won the lottery of life. How do we discharge that responsibility?

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

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.

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

When India feels that the West cares as much about slavery as it does about pirated DVDs, it will dispatch people to the borders to stop traffickers.

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

When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.

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.

Women are not the problem they're the solution

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

If you economically empower a woman, she represents enormous opportunity that can actually be transformative not only for her family and for her community, but at the aggregate level for the economy.