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Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka Quotes

b. 1955

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka (Zulu pronunciation: [pʰumziːle m̩lamboᵑǀʱuːkʼa] ⓘ; born 3 November 1955) is a South African politician and former United Nations official, who served as the Executive Director of UN Women with the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

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"I would hope that at this point in time, our children do not have to die in order to bring about changes."

"Young people, of whatever time and generation, feel invincible. That’s important for necessary change"

"This is where you can see that it is really necessary to open up and allow young people to play the role they want to play in providing leadership and solutions in society."

"It is important that women celebrate themselves but also that they don’t only preach to the converted and go out there and win more allies for our struggle."

" I think that it is important that women grab the opportunities that are there. Young women must stay at school much longer. They must delay having children until they can afford to have and look after them. They must be assertive and not be afraid to talk and to engage, because this world belongs to them just as much as it belongs to men."

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.