“More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century. More girls are killed in this routine gendercide in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the 20th century.The equivalent of 5 jumbo jets worth of women die in labor each day... life time risk of maternal death is 1,000x higher in a poor country than in the west. That should be an international scandal.”
―
Nicholas D. Kristof,
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few societies to take a contrary view was the Huichol tribe in Mexico. The Huichol believed that the pain of childbirth should be shared, so the mother would hold on to a string tied to her husband's testicles. With each painful contraction, she would give the string a yank so that the man could share the burden. Surely if such a mechanism were more widespread, injuries in childbirth would garner more attention.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“A man goes out on the beach and sees that it is covered with starfish that have washed up in the tide. A little boy is walking along, picking them up and throwing them back into the water. “What are you doing, son?” the man asks. “You see how many starfish there are? You’ll never make a difference.” The boy paused thoughtfully, and picked up another starfish and threw it into the ocean. “It sure made a difference to that one,” he said.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky
“Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof
“One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“[S]ex trafficking and mass rape should no more be seen as women's issues than slavery was a black issue or the Holocaust was a Jewish issue. These are all humanitarian concerns, transcending any one race, gender, or creed.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
“You educate a boy, and you're educating an individual. You educate a girl, and you're educating a village. -African Proverb” ― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“It appears that more girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they were girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth century. More girls are killed in this routine “gendercide” in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the twentieth century.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky
“So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women's power as economic catalysts. That is the process under way - not a drama of victimization but of empowerment, the kind that transforms bubbly teenage girls from brothel slaves into successful businesswomen.This is a story of transformation. It is change that is already taking place, and change that can accelerate if you'll just open your heart and join in.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“Astonishingly, the share of students who don't get education in contraceptives is going up, not down. The Trump administration even tried to cut off funding for a teen pregnancy prevention program (lawsuits forced it to continue that funding). What's confounding is that these same officials are often anti-abortion, yet they don't seem to understand that preventing unplanned pregnancies will reduce abortions. They believe that condoms will promote promiscuity, when condoms no more cause sex than umbrellas cause rain. These same officials then thunder about the irresponsibility of girls who get pregnant, oblivious to their own irresponsibility.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
“Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither... Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof
“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. —MARK TWAIN” ― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky
“The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW” ― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky
“sexism and misogyny. How else to explain why so many more witches were burned than wizards?” ― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky
“When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few societies to take a contrary view was the Huichol tribe in Mexico. The Huichol believed that the pain of childbirth should be shared, so the mother would hold on to a string tied to her husband's testicles. With each painful contraction, she would give the string a yank so that the man could share the burden. Surely if such a mechanism were more widespread, injuries in childbirth would garner more attention.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“A man goes out on the beach and sees that it is covered with starfish that have washed up in the tide. A little boy is walking along, picking them up and throwing them back into the water. “What are you doing, son?” the man asks. “You see how many starfish there are? You’ll never make a difference.” The boy paused thoughtfully, and picked up another starfish and threw it into the ocean. “It sure made a difference to that one,” he said.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky
“Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof
“One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“[S]ex trafficking and mass rape should no more be seen as women's issues than slavery was a black issue or the Holocaust was a Jewish issue. These are all humanitarian concerns, transcending any one race, gender, or creed.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
“You educate a boy, and you're educating an individual. You educate a girl, and you're educating a village. -African Proverb” ― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“It appears that more girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they were girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth century. More girls are killed in this routine “gendercide” in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the twentieth century.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky
“So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women's power as economic catalysts. That is the process under way - not a drama of victimization but of empowerment, the kind that transforms bubbly teenage girls from brothel slaves into successful businesswomen.This is a story of transformation. It is change that is already taking place, and change that can accelerate if you'll just open your heart and join in.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“Astonishingly, the share of students who don't get education in contraceptives is going up, not down. The Trump administration even tried to cut off funding for a teen pregnancy prevention program (lawsuits forced it to continue that funding). What's confounding is that these same officials are often anti-abortion, yet they don't seem to understand that preventing unplanned pregnancies will reduce abortions. They believe that condoms will promote promiscuity, when condoms no more cause sex than umbrellas cause rain. These same officials then thunder about the irresponsibility of girls who get pregnant, oblivious to their own irresponsibility.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
“Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither... Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof
“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. —MARK TWAIN” ― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky
“The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW” ― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky
“sexism and misogyny. How else to explain why so many more witches were burned than wizards?” ― Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky
