Melanne Verveer quote: "In India, at the community level, young men are playing an absolutely essential role in changing the cultural norms and deeply held practices concerning women. They are doing this in a way that not only empowers women and girls, but really empowers the young men as well."

In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society.
SAMINA BAIG

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

Women are as much politicians as men, and I hope that more and more women will enter public life thr...
PRENEET KAUR

I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be...
GLORIA STEINEM

I am shocked and deeply disappointed. It's a shame that politics between nations will affect in a ne...
DOT RICHARDSON

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as w...
HO CHI MINH

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they ...
THEODOR REIK

Drugs are also a part of school life in particular marijuana. Alcohol beverages, prostitution - not ...
DREXEL DEAL

Saying this tongue-in-cheek but as far as men are concerned women are toys and as far as women are c...
KEN O. ELDIB

Young women should realize that young men they date will not honor and respect them if they have bee...
JAMES E. FAUST

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never...
ANATOLE FRANCE

Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indi...
KAMLA PERSAD-BISSESSAR

Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, inc...
MARGARET MEAD

We really want to build young men and women.
ANTHONY THOMPSON

Cosmo is feminist in that we believe women are just as smart and capable as men and can achieve anyt...
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

Pornography has set up unrealistic expectations by young men concerning their wife and women in gene...
DAVID BIRD

As more and more women, men and young people raise their voices and become active in local governmen...
MICHELLE BACHELET

It is understandable that the perspectives of men and women on safety are so different--men and wome...
GAVIN DE BECKER

There is no difference between men and women and I tried to prove that even in logic men and women a...
JANA TYLOVA

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Ira...
GALE SAYERS

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise c...
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise c...
CHARLOTTE P. GILLMAN

Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
YAKOV SMIRNOFF

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
ANDRE MAUROIS

Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for ...
HAMZA YUSUF

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

I'm thrilled that women are encouraged to follow their dreams and I am equally pleased that young me...
LUCY LAWLESS

traditional folk music and dance in India ,specially women oriented . every folk music has a homely ...
LITYMUNSHI

The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ...
C. JOYBELL C.

Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.
AMY CLAMPITT

It's not because women don't have 'the right stuff.' Women are very tough mentally. But the best-tra...
JANICE CROUSE

Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolute...
JONATHAN CARROLL

,i>Since the Holy Spirit Gifts men and women alike, women should bel allowed to lead in the manne...
ALAN GARRETT

And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraq...
AHMED CHALABI

Are you chuckling yet? Because then along came you. A big, broad meat eater with brash blond hair an...
LIONEL SHRIVER

The real thing that keeps men and women apart, is fear. Women blame men and men blame women, but the...
C. JOYBELL C.

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Ageing is something that both men and women are utterly terrified about.
CATE BLANCHETT

And let me tell you something else, my friend," she said in the precise enunciation of a trained nur...
JAMES JONES

But they see themselves as women who are interested in men. They are not men interested in other men...
DALE NEAMAN

Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define...
RITA MAE BROWN

A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at...
MARKUS ZUSAK

Cuz I can count on one hand the men who’ve loved me, not in the Biblical sense—I don’t have en...
SHANNON CELEBI

I've always said, 'Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.'
SYLVIA EARLE

Women, and young men, are very apt to tell what secrets they know, from the vanity of having been tr...
LORD CHESTERFIELD

I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
ZOE LISTER-JONES

I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are n...
SISTER SOULJAH

As men “think” they are chasing sex and women “think” they are chasing relationships, when i...
VALERIE ROSE STERRETT

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H. L. MENCKEN

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN

Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately,...
NAZANIN BONIADI

Most women are not as young as they are painted.
MAX BEERBOHM

Youth football is very important to the Buccaneers and our family, as it plays such an integral role...
MALCOLM GLAZER

Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON

Police are killing black men. Mona Scott-Young is killing black women.
DARNELL LAMONT WALKER

The men and women who serve this great nation, whether they are stationed in Iraq, Fort Riley, or th...
KATHLEEN SEBELIUS

In a day and age where it seems like women want to be with unstable, psychotic, manipulative freaks;...
C. JOYBELL C.

Young gay and bisexual men are at the highest risk for HIV in this country.
HELENE GAYLE

I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women
CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our ol...
ARTHUR ASHE

Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE

The fact that men and women are nominated this year in films that women have directed is good for wo...
CATHERINE WYLER

The fact that men and women are nominated this year in films that women have directed is good for wo...
CATHERINE HARDWICKE

Women are looking for men that they can control, and that can control them only in bed.
GHEORGHECIUC ALEXANDRU SEVASTIAN

On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in ...
VALENTINA TERESHKOVA

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of...
RACHAEL TAYLOR

In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not on...
PEDRO ALMODOVAR

Because we are the only women who are mothers of men."

Gorgo: when asked by a woman from...
GORGOS

India has no dearth of brave young men and women and if they get the opportunity and help then we ca...
ATAL VAJPAYEE

India has no dearth of brave young men and women and if they get the opportunity and help then we ca...
ATAL BEHARI VAJPAYEE

Washington is full of famous men, and women they married when they were young
FANNY DIXWELL HOLMES

The need for prostitution arises from the fact that many men are either unmarried or away from their...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Today, two young men have been charged with crimes they did not commit. This is a tragedy. For the t...
ROBERT EKSTRAND

We've got to support [Bush] as the commander in chief and we've got to support those young men and w...
DAN AYKROYD

She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING

Did men ever look in the mirror, I wondered, and find themselves wanting in deeply fundamental ways?...
GAIL HONEYMAN

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

We mourn with you in this moment of grief. Our hearts go out to the bright young men and women who w...
ATAL BEHARI VAJPAYEE

Once these young men are vindicated, I feel that a big apology from the community is in order.
BUTCH WILLIAMS

The world is waiting ... for new saints, ecstatic men and women who are so deeply rooted in the love...
HENRI NOUWEN

Women are at once the guardians and the well-spring of the world's faith, morality, and tenderne...
JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY

I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad g...
DAVID NIVEN

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
REBECCA WEST

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to ackn...
DEE DEE MYERS

Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable caree...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reaso...
GEORGE CARLIN

A lot of women and men are interested in this class.
KARLA LOVE

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave...
MALALA YOUSAFZAI

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of d...
JEAN PIAGET

The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of d...
JEAN PIAGET

I'm really inspired by playing strong women. Anything that I can be a part of like that, to be a...
MISSY PEREGRYM

Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are...
GEORGE BALANCHINE

Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men un...
VICTORIA WOODHULL

Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most differe...
RICHARD ROHR

I think that women really entwine with the people that they become close to in a way that men don...
GILLIAN FLYNN

I'm constantly amazed at the courage of young children to stand up in front of a large crowd and per...
SANDRA IRVIN

And I tried to remember any case in the course of my reading where two women are represented as frie...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

In India, at the community level, young men are playing an absolutely essential role in changing the cultural norms and deeply held practices concerning women. They are doing this in a way that not only empowers women and girls, but really empowers the young men as well.

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Melanne Verveer

In India, at the community level, young men are playing an absolutely essential role in changing the cultural norms and deeply held practices concerning women. They are doing this in a way that not only empowers women and girls, but really empowers the young men as well.

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