Best quotes by Joyce Banda on Women

Checkout quotes by Joyce Banda on Women

• ‟ The seeds of success in every nation on Earth are best planted in women and children.

  - Joyce Banda
  

• ‟ Overall, I have formed three major organizations: the National Association of Business Women, the Young Women's Leaders Network, and the Joyce Banda Foundation. Under the foundation, we have a huge program that targets women to teach them about HIV and other diseases and to give them economic empowerment.

  - Joyce Banda
  

• ‟ I am tremendously inspired by many women around the world who work under dire circumstances to make a difference for their families.

  - Joyce Banda
  

• ‟ When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I was lucky to be under the care of trained health care personnel. I started wondering then what was happening to women in rural villages.

  - Joyce Banda
  

• ‟ I sat down in 1989 and I made up my mind at that point that I was going to spend the rest of my life assisting women and youth to gain social and political empowerment through business and education. I convinced myself economic empowerment of women was going to be key, especially in a country like this where most women didn't go to school.

  - Joyce Banda
  

• ‟ In 1989, I started the National Association of Business Women. We incorporated microfinance and different job training for women. We did a survey, with USAID, that found women lacked training, credit and information.

  - Joyce Banda
  

• ‟ Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are not empowered economically; they depend on their husbands.

  - Joyce Banda
  

• ‟ Misogyny not only for Joyce Banda but for women.

  - Joyce Banda
  

• ‟ I convinced myself economic empowerment of women was going to be key, especially in a country like this where most women didn't go to school.

  - Joyce Banda
  

• ‟ I'm indeed a mandasi seller, and I'm proud of it, because the majority of women in Malawi are like us, mandasi sellers.

  - Joyce Banda
  

• ‟ Women didn't go to school when they were young because parents preferred to send their brothers. The women couldn't access loans in their own right because the banks sought the approval of a male dependent.

  - Joyce Banda
  

• ‟ My mission in life is to assist women in social and political empowerment through business and education.

  - Joyce Banda
  

• ‟ Millions of women in malaria-endemic areas in Africa become pregnant every year. Malaria is a threat to these women and their babies, with up to 200,000 newborn deaths each year as a result of malaria.

  - Joyce Banda
  

• ‟ If we provide the young with a strong foundation, we can leave behind a legacy substantially greater than most are able to bequeath. As for the women, the old adage that you invest in a woman, you invest in a generation, still rings true today.

  - Joyce Banda
  

• ‟ You ask how I feel to be the first female president in southern Africa? It's heavy for me. Heavy in the sense that I feel that I'm carrying this heavy load on behalf of all women.

  - Joyce Banda
  

• ‟ My vision is a Malawi where men and women live in peace and in harmony as equals enjoying their human rights.

  - Joyce Banda