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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.

From Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

What I learned at journalism school and at ABC - those skills are the same no matter where you are in the world.

From Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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.

From Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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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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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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.

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