Helene D. Gayle Quotes

Learn to forgive yourself and move on.

If you educate a girl, you educate a nation.

My father had the main barber- and beauty-supply business in the African-American community in Buffalo.

Real, sustainable community change requires the initiative and engagement of community members.

There is no doubt that a woman's economic empowerment is very much interconnected to her health and the well being of her children.

We always say at CARE that we would love to see if we can work ourselves out of business.

When a child is starving, a family may not be able to think about long-term sustainability or damage to ecosystems that support endangered species.

Any discussion of investment or putting monetary value on the environment must start with the populations who rely on those resources.

I was the middle of five children, and we were five very opinionated siblings. That probably pushed me to learn to speak up for myself.

I always knew that I wanted to do the most that I could for the most people.

Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.

A big part of leadership is just being comfortable with the fact that some decisions really are only yours.

You can't marginalize more than half of the globe's population and expect to see any meaningful solutions to the problems that ail the world.