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Nicholas D. Kristof quotes

American Writer April 27, 1959

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More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century. More girls are killed in this routine gendercide in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the 20th century. The equivalent of 5 jumbo jets worth of women die in labor each day... life time risk of maternal death is 1,000x higher in a poor country than in the west. That should be an international scandal. Nicholas D. Kristof
Nicholas D. Kristof quote: "You don't need to invade a place or install a new government..."
You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change. Nicholas D. Kristof
One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot. Nicholas D. Kristof
When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few societies to take a contrary view was the Huichol tribe in Mexico. The Huichol believed that the pain of childbirth should be shared, so the mother would hold on to a string tied to her husband's testicles. With each painful contraction, she would give the string a yank so that the man could share the burden. Surely if such a mechanism were... Nicholas D. Kristof
The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity. Nicholas D. Kristof
The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that. Nicholas D. Kristof
Philanthropists and donors traditionally haven't been sufficiently interested in women's rights abroad, giving money instead to higher brow causes such as the ballet or art museums. There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women. Nicholas D. Kristof
There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted. Nicholas D. Kristof
Nicholas D. Kristof quote: "The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor..."
The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered. Nicholas D. Kristof
You would see people going back to homes that had been burned, putting thatch over their structures again. They still couldn't leave the area without the danger of men being killed or women being raped, but it was a start. Nicholas D. Kristof
Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither... Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause. Nicholas D. Kristof
Nicholas D. Kristof quote: "Half a million women die each year around the world in..."
Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect. Nicholas D. Kristof
your book is full of piquant ideas on how sexual assault is practiced by many people but in African countries the issue is pressurized by females themselves as they tend to dress on night attires as a result males are piquant ed to commit an offense Nicholas D. Kristof
If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic. Nicholas D. Kristof
All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night. Nicholas D. Kristof

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