Ban Ki-moon Quotes
Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
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I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.
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The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
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Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'
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The Israeli government has already established a fund to encourage young Arab women, specifically from the Bedouin community, to study engineering. We are funding their university studies and providing them with mentors who assist them with their studies and the job placement process.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.
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Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
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Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
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I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.
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The women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.
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Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?
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Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.
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I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.
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It takes me so long to get tired of a man. It's women that are the problem. Don't get me wrong. I think men have their problems just as much as women.
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I love to wear lingerie. The problem is that men always rip it off too quickly. When women are dolled up in lingerie they feel sexy. So let us wear it for five minutes.
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The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In the 1970s, as women began to take more jobs, society was reeling.
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Almost every venerable tradition at a men's club starts out as a joke.
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I'm quite sure we all have a sweet love song that we dance to or recall from our wedding or something, like 'At Last,' but I think that it is the love-gone-wrong songs that touch even men.
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It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent
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I never felt I had my 15, 16, 17 kind of years the way I maybe should have. It's a huge dent in you that it's hard to knock out and make it all smooth again.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.
