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.

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

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If you're talking about entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict settings, then you must talk about women, because they are the population you have left.

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Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool ... but we must move beyond micro-hopes and micro-ambitions for women.

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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.

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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.

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We do not invest in victims, we invest in survivors.

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The United States will not be in Afghanistan forever.

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Single mothers are raising more of America's children than ever before.

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A lot has been said about single mothers. Most of it has been less than flattering.

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Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one.

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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.

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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.

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The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined.

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

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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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I think for larger-scale entrepreneurship, it's true - for men and women - that people who already have capital tend to do better.

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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.

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

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

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

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