Valerie Jarrett Quotes

My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

I hope that through Fast Forward, we can encourage women everywhere to know their power wherever they find themselves; to find their purpose; and to connect with others in order to create a better world - especially for women and girls.

Women are emerging as a major force for change. Countries that have invested in girls' education and removed legal barriers that prevent women from achieving their potential are now seeing the benefits.

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'

Women and girls transform societies.

Walmart's Global Women's Economic Empowerment Initiative is working to create opportunity and empower women and girls in markets around the world.

I like strong women. Physical women.

For me, personally, it has been humbling since I became First Minister to speak to women and girls and have them tell me how much it means to them to have a woman in the top job in politics in Scotland.

My mum fought for feminism in her day so instilled in me the importance of equality. She taught me so much about women.

I have so much respect for my mom and all the women across the world.

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

Today's girls are tomorrow's women - and leaders.

As an entrepreneur and mother, I support the need to put women at the center, recognizing their crucial impact on social development and their important role of balancing family and professional responsibilities.

By including women in decision-making, city governments will be in a better position to fulfill their responsibility to ensure the safety of their residents, especially women and girls.

Investing in girls can actually move the needle in communities... and can actually benefit boys, because girls are the mothers of boys.

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, 'Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?'

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.

Women in the Islamic world are the hope of the whole planet.

Women have to be able to look at themselves in the mirror as men do and say, “I see a presidential candidate!”

We don't need to be men in skirts to have a role in politics. Women can be leaders by being sensitive women.

This is a question our women must answer; upon their loins depends the future destiny of the nation.

We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should be under natural conditions, our motherhood would be our glory. That function gives women such wisdom and power as no male can possess.

Empowering women and girls is the only way to protect their rights and make sure they can realise their full potential.

We can't afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.