A Quote by Leymah Gbowee

Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.

Leymah Gbowee

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Leymah Gbowee
Liberian - Activist
Born: February 1, 1972

It's been Axelle's [Carolyn] and my burden to bear, for better or worse. A very fun burden to bear.

Mike Mendez

As women, we're supposed to bear the burden of raising our families and then also financially providing for them as well, and it's difficult when you're already starting off making less than the average.

Adrienne C. Moore

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Hosea Ballou

No matter how you measure it, women and girls bear the brunt of poverty. But it's also clear that women are also our greatest hope for ending it. We at CARE have long believed that if you change the life of a girl or woman, you don't just change that individual, you change her family and then her community.

Helene D. Gayle

Besides problems of traditional societies, the Caucasus has to cope with quite a few unsettled territorial conflicts that also nurture authoritarian governmental structures.

Garry Kasparov

Because the traditional mode of dress for Muslim women is so distinct - the headcovering, which is not there for guys - women carry a greater burden of representation than Muslim men do in non-Muslim societies.

G. Willow Wilson

Let us trust in Him who has placed this burden upon us. What we ourselves cannot bear let us bear with the help of Christ. For He is all-powerful, and He tells us: 'My yoke is easy, and my burden light.'

Saint Boniface

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

George MacDonald

When women are expected to bear the burden of unpaid work, everyone loses.

Sharan Burrow

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

John Newton

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

Dag Hammarskjold

What makes loneliness an anguish Is not that I have no one to share my burden, But this: I have only my own burden to bear.

Dag Hammarskjold

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.

Harold B. Lee

Sometimes, when you are one of only a couple of girls in an engineering class, you feel like you are representing women in general. That is a large burden to bear.

Emily Calandrelli

In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.