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

One of the best ways to fight poverty and to fight terrorism is to educate girls and bring women into the formal labor force.

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

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.

Women are not the problem they're the solution

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

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.