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I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!

Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing that. That, plus helping women gain political and economic power and safeguarding their reproductive rights.

I believe it is in the world's interest to develop environments that fully engage women and leverage their natural talents.

Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national interests.

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

There is a reason you keep hearing about the power of educating girls in the developing world. It's a reason so simple that you will probably view it with suspicion, as I once did. It's this: educating girls works. Really works.

There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.

If we create a generation of men who aren't getting an education, that's bad for women.