Author: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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Microfinance does not require previous experience or loans to the same extent as a small-business loan, so it's easier for women to enter the micro sector.

Microfinance does not require previous experience or loans to the same extent as a small-business loan, so it's easier for women to enter the micro sector.

- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

The one thing you learn from looking at places like Afghanistan is that the power of business to do good is enormous.

The one thing you learn from looking at places like Afghanistan is that the power of business to do good is enormous.

- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

No woman in Afghanistan is in business without support from either her husband or her father or her uncle, someone.

No woman in Afghanistan is in business without support from either her husband or her father or her uncle, someone.

- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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.

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.

- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

I think for larger-scale entrepreneurship, it's true - for men and women - that people who already have capital tend to do better.

I think for larger-scale entrepreneurship, it's true - for men and women - that people who already have capital tend to do better.

- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

A social entrepreneur finds market-based solutions for change. Because without a market-based solution, without a sustainable solution, you go nowhere.

A social entrepreneur finds market-based solutions for change. Because without a market-based solution, without a sustainable solution, you go nowhere.

- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

When people can't feed their children, nothing else positive happens. You don't have to look farther than the United States to see that.

When people can't feed their children, nothing else positive happens. You don't have to look farther than the United States to see that.

- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

I'm a really bad driver. When I'm in L.A. my husband always has to park the car for me, because I'm likely to hit something.

I'm a really bad driver. When I'm in L.A. my husband always has to park the car for me, because I'm likely to hit something.

- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men.

In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men.

- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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