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Everything has to do with education: If you educate the girls, you educate the family, the community, and society, in general.

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

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.

I believe that it is girls' human rights to go to school to be educated, minimum, until they are 18.

We can't afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.

When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.

Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.

Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.