Author: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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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

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

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

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

Because microfinance is so manageable in terms of the size of the loan, people have made it the cornerstone to lifting women out of poverty.

Because microfinance is so manageable in terms of the size of the loan, people have made it the cornerstone to lifting women out of poverty.

- 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

The women of Afghanistan have a voice, and it needs to be heard and not forgotten.

The women of Afghanistan have a voice, and it needs to be heard and not forgotten.

- 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

We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.

We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.

- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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