Famous Quotes

"The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies."

Gro Harlem Brundtland on Women

More quotes about Women

• "A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Women

• "I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."

  Marilyn Monroe on Women

• "Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Women

• "The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Women

• "As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."

  John Lennon on Women

More quotes by Gro Harlem Brundtland

• "Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone."

• "A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries."

• "Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases."

• "We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors in order to prevent chronic diseases."

• "You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition."