Nita Ambani Quotes

I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children.

There are six million female lives lost in the world every year simply because they are female.

In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some countries they even mutilate women.

No longer will there be impunity for crimes against women. Now there is an avenue for recourse.

Female Genital Mutilation is a violation of the human rights of girls and women.

We must develop a truly global roadmap to eradicate all forms of discrimination still suffered by women.

Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.

I live in a war zone. I would never have imagined 37 years ago when I started practicing law that there would still be so much discrimination against women, so much denial of women's rights.

There has never been more at stake for women's health and rights.

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

I hate the victimization of women, always.

I work with a cause called the Somaly Mam Foundation, and that is my purpose in life, above anything else. Everything that I do, I'm thinking about girls. As strong as we are, we're also sensitive, and I feel like men take advantage of that.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

It's estimated that one million girls in India 'disappear' every year.

Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.

Hillary Clinton has a strong and powerful voice regarding ending violence against women and girls.

There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.'

We have to join hands and fight against female infanticide, when life is snuffed out the minute people find out it is a girl.

As Indians, we take great pride in the fact that we are a progressive nation. We are proud of our democracy, our secular values as well as our entrepreneurial spirit. We are appalled by the harsh laws that govern women's lives in Taliban-dominated lands. Yet we turn a blind eye to the injustices that our own society continues to heap upon women.

What I hope to do is create a play that investigates the ongoing violence toward women and children in the world, and searches for some kind of answer to the question, 'What Can We Do?'

People aren't so interested in seeing movies about women's problems.

I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia.

In this industry, all the heads of labels are men, but every artist has to prove themselves, regardless of their sex. I have always been very vocal about the women sticking together.

Because women and girls are not valued equally as human beings, they are treated as less than such. Female genital mutilation is one example of this that has to be stopped.