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My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society.

— Annie Lennox

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.

— Yang Lan

I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue.

— Michelle Bachelet

I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia.

— Emma Bonino

The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.

— Iman

Female empowerment really is important to me. I'm a big nerd of the books from the 15th Century and 16th Century, when the men had all the power and the women had none of it.

— Ariel Winter

In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.

— Melinda Gates

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

— Sally Quinn

I want to tell women in developing countries that they are as powerful as their male counterparts, and they can play an equal role in their respective societies.

— Samina Baig

✗Opposing Perspectives

We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.

— Oscar de la Renta

Women are emerging as a major force for change. Countries that have invested in girls' education and removed legal barriers that prevent women from achieving their potential are now seeing the benefits.

— Sri Mulyani Indrawati