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" 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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" My mother worked at the telephone company during the day and sold Tupperware at night. Evenings, she took classes when she could at University of Maryland's University College, bringing me along to do homework while she studied to get the degree she hoped would offer her and me greater opportunities. "

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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Mother

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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. "

" The one thing you learn from looking at places like Afghanistan is that the power of business to do good is enormous. "

" Educating girls just one year beyond the average fourth grade education increases their eventual earnings by 10 to 20 percent. Every additional year of secondary education can increase future wages by 15 to 25 percent. "

" 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. "

" My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship. "

" 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. "

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

" Educated mothers are 50 percent more likely to immunize their children than mothers with no schooling. "

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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" 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. "

" I think that sometimes people are frightened to take the risk of entrepreneurship. "

" I worked at ABCNews.com at a time when nobody knew what 'dot com' was. "

" When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996 after a searing, four-year civil war, they immediately instituted laws which fit their utopic vision of the time of Islam's founding more than 1,300 years earlier. Afghan women's lives offered the most visible sign of the imagined past to which Afghanistan's present was to be returned. "

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

" 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. "

" A social entrepreneur finds market-based solutions for change. Because without a market-based solution, without a sustainable solution, you go nowhere. "

" 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. "

" I don't often think of Donald Trump, but his daughter is very smart. She's a woman working in real estate, which is predominantly men, and she's both savvy and articulate about her business and her business acumen. "

" In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men. "

" I'm a really bad driver. When I'm in L.A. my husband always has to park the car for me, because I'm likely to hit something. "

" No woman in Afghanistan is in business without support from either her husband or her father or her uncle, someone. "

" 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. "

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

" The draconian prohibitions of the Taliban years and the gains Afghan women have achieved since the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001 are now well known and often cited: Today, Afghans lucky enough to live in secure regions can go to school, women may work in offices, and the burqa is no longer mandatory. "