Swanee Hunt Quotes

I can quote you lots of chapters in verse from the bible that are terrible for women. But you can use the bible to either liberate or subjugate women. And it’s the same with the Koran.

I would like to see many times more dollars going into the education for girls. The World Bank has some wonderful statistics in terms of the importance of educating girls as a way of lifting whole societies out of poverty.

Women know what kinds of laws can really be implemented. I loved in the film where the woman was talking to the other women about what it was going to be like when they were married. And she was saying, “Now, don’t you think that just because the mother gave your husbands that cow that it’s just his cow.”

If we look at governments around the world, we see that the higher the women’s percentage is in parliament, the more funding there is for education and for health care as compared to buying arms, for example.

I think the women in the political positions will push very, very hard to see that there are loans and banks for women in Rwanda.

Rwanda is an example in terms of the transformation of the rights of women. But if you talk to almost any Africanist at the State Department or the World Bank, when you say the word Africa, they think women.

I think that women often can connect at a heart to heart level.

Women are less corruptible. There’s plenty of research to show that they are less inclined to take bribes and they are more trustworthy. And so it’s all the more important to have them in large percentages.

Women ten years ago were much more of the household property than is the case now. It’s not to say that if you go backcountry you don’t also find that. And there’s a tremendous education campaign that is needed to apprise women of their rights.