“Our focus has to be on changing reality, not changing laws.”
―
Sheryl WuDunn,
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“It's no accident that the countries that have enjoyed an economic take off have been those that educated girls and then gave them the autonomy to move to the cities to find work” ― Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“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.” ― Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“when sex is conceptualized as a need, it creates an environment that fosters men’s sense of sexual entitlement. Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s book Half the Sky illustrates how the assumption that boys require outlets to “relieve their sexual frustrations” facilitates the sexual enslavement of impoverished girls. If you think of sex as a drive, like hunger or thirst, that has to be fed for survival, if you think that men in particular—with their 75 percent spontaneous desire—need to relieve their pent-up sexual energy, then you can invent justifications for any strategy a man might use to relieve himself. Because if sex is a drive, like hunger, then potential partners are like food. Or like animals to be hunted for food.” ― Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
“[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
“...when women gain control over spending, less family money is devoted to instant gratification and more for education and starting small businesses.” ― Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“When India feels that the West cares as much about slavery as it does about pirated DVDs, it will dispatch people to the borders to stop traffickers.” ― Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“The tools to crush modern slavery exist, but the political will is lacking.” ― Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“In short, women themselves absorb and transmit misogynistic values, just as men do. This is not a tidy world of tyrannical men and victimized women, but a messier realm of oppressive social customs adhered to by men and women alike.” ― Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
“When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.” ― Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“...cultural barriers can be overcome relatively swiftly where there is the political will to do so.” ― Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“If you can capture the youth and change the way they think, then you can change the future.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
“One of the most infuriating elements of American myopia about investing in at-risk kids is that politicians often insist that they don't have the funds to pay for social services, but they somehow find the resources to pay for prisons later on. Republican lawmakers don't want to pay for $500 IUDs for low-income women, so they pay $17,000 for Medicaid births. They don't want to pay to reduce lead poisoning, even though that means paying for special education classes for years to come.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
“Ronald Reagan had a point when he said that "the best social program is a job.” ― Nicholas D. Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn
“There's a larger social justice reason for sex educators' fighting against the myth of sex as a drive for more than a hundred years. A far worse consequence is that when sex is conceptualized as a need, it creates an environment that fosters men's sense of sexual entitlement. Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book Half the Sky illustrates how the assumption that boys require outlets to "relieve their sexual frustrations" facilitates the sexual enslavement of impoverished girls. If you think of sex as a drive, like hunger or thirst, that has to be fed for survival, if you think that men in particular- with their 75 percent spontaneous desire- need to relieve their pent-up sexual energy, then you can invent justifications for any strategy a man might use to relieve himself.” ― Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
“There are the subsidies to the wealthy like the carried-interest tax loophole or the mortgage subsidy for yachts. By some calculations, corporate subsidies, credits, and loopholes are 50% higher than entitlements to the poor, not including medicare and medicaid.Some of the other subsidies are outlandish. Put a few goats on your golf course and you can classify it as farmland, as President Trump did, and you can save large sums in taxes. The tax code has come to serve the wealthy in myriad of ways.” ― Nicholas D. Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn
“Some liberals falsely assert that Christian aid groups help only those who are Christians (this is not true of the major organizations? and don't appreciate the scale of giving by people of faith. World Vision has 40,000 staff in roughly 100 countries-more than CARE, Save the Children, and the United States Agency for International Development combined. Some secular liberals are pushing to end the longtime practice of channeling aid through religious aid groups, even though that would cripple aid efforts. In the past five years, half of food aid in Haiti went through religiously affiliated organizations, such as World Vision, that have deep networks on the ground. ...Religious Americans actually donate more of their income to charity and volunteer more of their time than any other group. If secular liberals can give up some of their scorn, and if religious conservatives can retire some of their sanctimony, combined they might succeed in making greater progress against common enemies of humanity.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
“The World Health Organization estimates that 536,000 women perished in pregnancy or childbirth in 2005, a toll that has barely budged in thirty years. Child mortality has plunged, longevity has increased, but childbirth remains almost as deadly as ever, with one maternal death every minute. Some 99 percent of these deaths occur in poor countries.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
“2If you love kids; if you love kids with grit; and above all, if you want to make a difference, back programs that inspire children to realize that they can grow up to be more than pawns.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
“It's no accident that the countries that have enjoyed an economic take off have been those that educated girls and then gave them the autonomy to move to the cities to find work” ― Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“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.” ― Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“when sex is conceptualized as a need, it creates an environment that fosters men’s sense of sexual entitlement. Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s book Half the Sky illustrates how the assumption that boys require outlets to “relieve their sexual frustrations” facilitates the sexual enslavement of impoverished girls. If you think of sex as a drive, like hunger or thirst, that has to be fed for survival, if you think that men in particular—with their 75 percent spontaneous desire—need to relieve their pent-up sexual energy, then you can invent justifications for any strategy a man might use to relieve himself. Because if sex is a drive, like hunger, then potential partners are like food. Or like animals to be hunted for food.” ― Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
“[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
“...when women gain control over spending, less family money is devoted to instant gratification and more for education and starting small businesses.” ― Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“When India feels that the West cares as much about slavery as it does about pirated DVDs, it will dispatch people to the borders to stop traffickers.” ― Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“The tools to crush modern slavery exist, but the political will is lacking.” ― Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“In short, women themselves absorb and transmit misogynistic values, just as men do. This is not a tidy world of tyrannical men and victimized women, but a messier realm of oppressive social customs adhered to by men and women alike.” ― Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
“When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.” ― Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“...cultural barriers can be overcome relatively swiftly where there is the political will to do so.” ― Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“If you can capture the youth and change the way they think, then you can change the future.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
“One of the most infuriating elements of American myopia about investing in at-risk kids is that politicians often insist that they don't have the funds to pay for social services, but they somehow find the resources to pay for prisons later on. Republican lawmakers don't want to pay for $500 IUDs for low-income women, so they pay $17,000 for Medicaid births. They don't want to pay to reduce lead poisoning, even though that means paying for special education classes for years to come.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
“Ronald Reagan had a point when he said that "the best social program is a job.” ― Nicholas D. Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn
“There's a larger social justice reason for sex educators' fighting against the myth of sex as a drive for more than a hundred years. A far worse consequence is that when sex is conceptualized as a need, it creates an environment that fosters men's sense of sexual entitlement. Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book Half the Sky illustrates how the assumption that boys require outlets to "relieve their sexual frustrations" facilitates the sexual enslavement of impoverished girls. If you think of sex as a drive, like hunger or thirst, that has to be fed for survival, if you think that men in particular- with their 75 percent spontaneous desire- need to relieve their pent-up sexual energy, then you can invent justifications for any strategy a man might use to relieve himself.” ― Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
“There are the subsidies to the wealthy like the carried-interest tax loophole or the mortgage subsidy for yachts. By some calculations, corporate subsidies, credits, and loopholes are 50% higher than entitlements to the poor, not including medicare and medicaid.Some of the other subsidies are outlandish. Put a few goats on your golf course and you can classify it as farmland, as President Trump did, and you can save large sums in taxes. The tax code has come to serve the wealthy in myriad of ways.” ― Nicholas D. Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn
“Some liberals falsely assert that Christian aid groups help only those who are Christians (this is not true of the major organizations? and don't appreciate the scale of giving by people of faith. World Vision has 40,000 staff in roughly 100 countries-more than CARE, Save the Children, and the United States Agency for International Development combined. Some secular liberals are pushing to end the longtime practice of channeling aid through religious aid groups, even though that would cripple aid efforts. In the past five years, half of food aid in Haiti went through religiously affiliated organizations, such as World Vision, that have deep networks on the ground. ...Religious Americans actually donate more of their income to charity and volunteer more of their time than any other group. If secular liberals can give up some of their scorn, and if religious conservatives can retire some of their sanctimony, combined they might succeed in making greater progress against common enemies of humanity.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
“The World Health Organization estimates that 536,000 women perished in pregnancy or childbirth in 2005, a toll that has barely budged in thirty years. Child mortality has plunged, longevity has increased, but childbirth remains almost as deadly as ever, with one maternal death every minute. Some 99 percent of these deaths occur in poor countries.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
“2If you love kids; if you love kids with grit; and above all, if you want to make a difference, back programs that inspire children to realize that they can grow up to be more than pawns.” ― Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
