Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Public Servant

United States

1973 - Present

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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.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
The majority of Afghans do not see the Americans as foreign occupiers who must be defeated. Instead, they are hungry for the Americans to step up and help them make their country safer, their government cleaner and their economy stronger. They are disappointed because the international community has done too little, not too much.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
A social entrepreneur finds market-based solutions for change. Because without a market-based solution, without a sustainable solution, you go nowhere.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Single mothers are raising more of America's children than ever before.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
What I learned at journalism school and at ABC - those skills are the same no matter where you are in the world.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Educated mothers are 50 percent more likely to immunize their children than mothers with no schooling.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Educating girls just one year beyond the average fourth grade education increases their eventual earnings by 10 to 20 percent. Every additional year of secondary education can increase future wages by 15 to 25 percent.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Women who choose to breastfeed should get as much education and support as possible.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
It is high time to declare an end to the breastfeeding dictatorship that is drowning women in guilt and worry just when they most need support: after the birth of a child.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
I worked at ABCNews.com at a time when nobody knew what 'dot com' was.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon