#InternationalDayOfTheGirlChild: 13 Quotes To Inspire Every Girl Child To Greatness

Today, October 11 is celebrated globally as the International Day of the Girl Child, a United Nations (UN)  initiative which was inaugurated to promote and protect the rights of girls around the world.

It is also aimed at giving the girl child the opportunity to be educated and skilled and celebrates the importance, power, and potential of girls around the world.

The theme for this year is  “My voice, our equal future.”

To commemorate this special day,  here are 13 inspirational quotes from notable women to inspire every girl child.

Here Are 8 Reasons Why The International Day Of The Girl Child Is Important

1.”Everyone wins when children – and especially girls – have access to education. An educated girl is likely to increase her personal earning potential and prepare herself for a productive and fulfilling life, as well as reduce poverty in the whole community. Investing in girls’ education also helps delay early marriage and parenthood. Our booming economies in Africa need more female engineers, teachers, and doctors to prosper and sustain growth.” – Angelique Kidjo.

2. “And though she be but little, she is fierce.” – William Shakespeare

3.“One is not born, but rather becomes a woman.” ― Simone de Beauvoir

 4. “If one man can destroy everything, why can’t one girl change it?” ― Malala Yousafzai

5. “[Girls] know that education is their only path to self-sufficiency.  It is their only chance to shape their own fate rather than having the limits of their lives dictated to them by others.” – Michelle Obama

6.”We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons..but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.” – Gloria Steinem

7.”By empowering a woman, we empower a child. By educating a girl child, we make it possible for her to grow up to become an empowered woman.” – Winnie Byanyima

8.“To girls and women everywhere, I issue a simple invitation. My sisters, my daughters, my friends; find your voice.”- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia

9.”Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of.” ― Bethany Hamilton

10. “Don’t be afraid to speak up for yourself. Keep fighting for your dreams”!- Gabby Douglas

11.”Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.” ― Jane Austen

12. “A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.” – Coco Chanel

13. “You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.”–Melissa Etheridge

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