It’s International Day of the Girl Child and here are some quotes from the Duchess of Success , Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex who happens to be the Duchess of Influence.
- With fame comes opportunity, but it also includes responsibility – to advocate and share, to focus less on glass slippers and more on pushing through glass ceilings.
- “Women make up more than half of the world’s population and potential, so it is neither just nor practical for their voices, for our voices, to go unheard at the highest levels of decision-making.” Keynote Speech UN Women Conference on International Women’s Day in 2015
- “It is said that girls with dreams become women with vision. May we empower each other to carry out such vision — because it isn’t enough to simply talk about equality? One must believe it. And it isn’t enough to simply believe in it. One must work at it. Let us work at it. Together.
- “What’s interesting is that I hear a lot of people saying, when talking about girls’ empowerment and women as well, you’ll often hear people saying, ‘You’re helping them find their voices’, I fundamentally disagree with that. Women don’t need to find their voice. They need to feel empowered to use it and people need to be encouraged to listen.”
- If my name is going to be on something, I’m going to have my say’
- You can be a woman who wants to look good and still stand up for the equality of women.’
- I’ve never wanted to be a lady who lunches – I’ve always wanted to be a woman who works and this is the type of work that feeds my soul.”
- “If we treated ourselves as well as we treat our best friend it would just be so much better! When you see your girlfriends and you hear all this self-shaming and all this criticism and you just stop and say ‘Hey, that’s my friend you’re talking about, stop!’ And if we did that for ourselves that along would create a very different energy.”
- “The opportunity to head off to One Young World to be part of a discourse for young women to feel empowered to know that their worth, their reach and their level of opportunity is what they make for themselves is invaluable. And perhaps the more vital piece of this puzzle is the knowledge that the young men at One Young World see this too.”
- “They see a world where their wives are not the women behind every great man, but rather beside them; a world that echoes the modern history of Ireland, helmed by women such as President Mary Robinson and President Mary McAleese and now the first female Ambassador to the US for Ireland, Anne Anderson. Women can do it all.”
