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. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Read Quote
Women in Afghanistan do not ask the United States to stay for the simple or sentimental reason of safeguarding their rights. They are the first ones to say that this is not enough of a reason for the world’s remaining superpower to remain in their country. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Read Quote
War reporters are often seen as a wild bunch of thrill-seekers who wade into danger zones simply for the sake of the adrenalin high the settings inevitably provide. But this one-dimensional explanation leaves out the core of the story, which is that reporters go to these places because they feel the tug of responsibility. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Read Quote
Women who choose to breastfeed should get as much education and support as possible. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Read Quote
No one argues with the many benefits of breastfeeding for those women who choose it. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Read Quote
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. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Read Quote
Educated mothers are 50 percent more likely to immunize their children than mothers with no schooling. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Read Quote
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. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Read Quote
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. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Read Quote
