KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Ann Cotton Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Ann Cotton

Showing 11-20 of 38 Quotes by Ann Cotton

Key to success for the education of young African girls is building a model that works with communities, schools, and national Ministries of Education to build a system of protection and support around girls, ensuring that they receive the education that is their right. Financial support is provided alongside a social support system.

~Ann Cotton

Topics: African Alongside Around Build Building Communities Education Ensuring Financial Girl Key Key To Success Model National Protection Provided Receive Right Schools Social Success Support System Works Young

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


To expose the hardships experienced by children who are deprived of the right to attend school, Camfed has produced a series of films about educational exclusion. 'Every Child Belongs in School' provides a glimpse into the lives of children who have been forced by poverty to leave school at a very young age and take a difficult life path.

~Ann Cotton

Topics: About Age Attend Been Belongs Child Children Deprived Difficult Educational Every Exclusion Experienced Expose Films Forced Glimpse Hardships Leave Life Lives Path Poverty Produced Provides Right School Series Take Very Who Young Young Age

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plough, you take what is offered to you.

~Ann Cotton

Topics: Confidence Diminishes Even Grain Need Offered Offers Plough Poverty Really Someone Store Take You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


All countries have poor people. Yet it's a very rare country which understands the indignities of poverty, while education systems maintain the status quo. The children of the elite go to the best schools and get the best jobs, not because they are the best. We're not taking advantage of the intellectual power on this planet.

~Ann Cotton

Topics: Advantage Because Best Children Countries Country Education Elite Get Go Intellectual Jobs Maintain People Planet Poor Poor People Poverty Power Quo Rare Schools Status Status Quo Systems Taking Taking Advantage Understands Very Which While

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I have seen the transformative effect that education has in the lives of young women and their communities.

~Ann Cotton

Topics: Communities Education Effect Lives Seen Transformative Women Young Young Women

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Money is hardly neutral. Its connection to power makes it a highly charged social phenomenon and a mediator of relationships. Because it has historically been controlled by men, it has given men a tool for controlling women.

~Ann Cotton

Topics: Because Been Charged Connection Controlled Controlling Given Hardly Highly Historically Makes Mediator Men Money Neutral Phenomenon Power Relationships Social Tool Women

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Women's vulnerability around money is hardly exclusive to Africa. Throughout the world, women struggle with financial power. In the West, women's financial literacy is notably lower than men's. That lack of knowledge means that many women slide into poverty when they become widows.

~Ann Cotton

Topics: Africa Around Become Exclusive Financial Hardly Knowledge Lack Literacy Lower Many Means Men Money Poverty Power Slide Struggle Than Throughout Vulnerability West Widows Women World

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


For the poor, learning to manage money well is central to improving their lives.

~Ann Cotton

Topics: Central Improving Learning Lives Manage Money Poor Well

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


At base, financial literacy is inextricably connected to control over one's future.

~Ann Cotton

Topics: Base Connected Control Financial Future Literacy Over

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The culture of philanthropy is alive and very well in Africa. International aid strengthens and extends it, but in the communities where I have spent time, it is all-pervasive.

~Ann Cotton

Topics: Africa Aid Alive Communities Culture International Philanthropy Spent Strengthens Time Very Well Where

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: Welsh

Type: Businesswoman

Born: Unknown

Links

Find Ann Cotton on Amazon

Related Authors

Mary Kay Ash
Katharine Graham
Leona Helmsley
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Marissa Mayer
Anne M. Mulcahy
Sheryl Sandberg
Barbara Sher

Popular Authors

Yogi Berra Hippocrates Michael Jackson John Keats Douglas Macarthur Vladimir Putin Eleanor Roosevelt Will Smith

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1770 - William Wordsworth

1648 - John Sheffield

1718 - Hugh Blair

1772 - Charles Fourier

1775 - Francis Cabot Lowell

1780 - William Ellery Channing

1873 - John Mcgraw

1874 - Frederick Carl Frieseke

1881 - Daisy Ashford

1889 - Gabriela Mistral

Birthdays on April 7th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Attitude Communication Father's Day God Pet Religion Sports Women