Liya Kebede Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• The message of our campaign is "Make every mother and child count". This campaign is not just about health. It is also a powerful call for radical progress in women's rights and the rights of their children. Too often, the health of mothers and children does not count. In too many parts of the world, they are forgotten.

  Liya Kebede

  Mother, Powerful, Children

• When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.

  Liya Kebede

  Mother, Children, Military

  "Let’s Make Mother’s Day a Global Reality" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2009.

• Children with healthy mothers are much more likely to survive childhood, attend school and live healthy, productive lives.

  Liya Kebede

  Mother, Children, School

  "Mother’s Day Mission: Help Reduce Maternal Mortality in the Developing World" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2010.

• We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.

  Liya Kebede

  Mother, Our World, Poverty

  "Let’s Make Mother’s Day a Global Reality" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2009.

• What I love most about Mother's Day is that I am acknowledged and honored for being a mother.

  Liya Kebede

  Mother, Being A Mother, Mother's Day

• The best lesson that I've learned from my mother is that she just never accepted no for an answer and I think that's something that has stayed with me.

  Liya Kebede

  Mother, Thinking, Accepted

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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