Nancy Gibbs Quote

The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well.

Nancy Gibbs

The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well.

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About Nancy Gibbs

Nancy Reid Gibbs (born January 25, 1960) is an American essayist, speaker, and presidential historian.
She is the former managing editor for TIME magazine, an author, and commentator on politics and values in the United States. She is the co-author, with Michael Duffy, of The New York Times Bestsellers The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House (2007) and The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity (2012).
Gibbs currently serves as the Lombard Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. She is also the Visiting Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press, Politics and Public Policy, teaching Politics of the Press and Op-ed Writing.