Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Quotes

Our Matru Shakti is our pride. Women empowerment is very crucial to our development.

There is simply no way our nation can progress if its women population is left behind.

Gender equality has a transformative effect that is essential to fully functioning communities, societies, and economies.

No society can thrive when half its people are left behind.

Nations are more successful when their women are successful.

There was never any doubt in our minds that men and women were equal, if not more so.

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.

Even into the 20th century, women were still struggling in the Western world for rights that Islam had granted women in the 7th century: equal rights to education; the right to own and inherit property; to have a voice in the decisions affecting their lives; to be active, engaged, and valued members of society at all levels.

...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

We are worse off - all of us, including men and boys - if our society is not developing and empowering 100% of the resources of humanity, including women and girls.

Men think it's a women's word. But what it means is that you believe in equality, and if you stand for equality, then you're a feminist. Sorry to tell you. You're a feminist. You're a feminist. That's it.

Our experience shows - and survey after survey reveals - institutions are run better, communities are healthier when women are involved in solving the challenges of our society. Equal representation does not just lead to good democracy: it is democracy.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies.

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.

Women play just as hard as guys do. We're just as competitive.

The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

I believe that it is our human right to be parents and women. And there's no contradiction between feminism, which means women should have all that they are entitled to, all that they can do, all the opportunities that they can take advantage of they should have.

You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism - so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.

…if civilization is to advance at all in the future, it must be through the help of women, women freed of their political shackles, women with full power to work their will in society.

If we think that our daughters ought to be in Congress next to our sons, we'd better let our sons know that now, so that they get prepared to have women as colleagues.

An Arab renaissance cannot be accomplished without the rise of women in Arab countries … Directly and indirectly, it concerns the well-being of the entire Arab world