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The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
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It is high time to declare an end to the breastfeeding dictatorship that is drowning women in guilt and worry just when they most need support: after the birth of a child.
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No one argues with the many benefits of breastfeeding for those women who choose it.
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What I learned at journalism school and at ABC - those skills are the same no matter where you are in the world.
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In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able to report, and the kind of stories people will tell you.
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I think for larger-scale entrepreneurship, it's true - for men and women - that people who already have capital tend to do better.
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I think entrepreneurs are born and not created, and so I think you see a lot of similarities among entrepreneurs in different parts of the world. Their backdrop may be very different, but their drive to create a business and to create jobs remains very much the same, whether it's in Silicon Valley or Kandahar or Kabul.
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I think that sometimes people are frightened to take the risk of entrepreneurship.
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The one thing you learn from looking at places like Afghanistan is that the power of business to do good is enormous.
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Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there are people depending on them, I think that their creativity, their resilience, their spirit, embody what's best about entrepreneurship.
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A social entrepreneur finds market-based solutions for change. Because without a market-based solution, without a sustainable solution, you go nowhere.
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We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.
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