Author: Melanne Verveer

Quotes

For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.

For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.

- Melanne Verveer

My major obligation or responsibility is to work to integrate gender issues throughout the work of the State Department.

My major obligation or responsibility is to work to integrate gender issues throughout the work of the State Department.

- Melanne Verveer

The most important lesson I've learned is how rich and rewarding life is when one can engage in meaningful work, whether on the job or outside of work.

The most important lesson I've learned is how rich and rewarding life is when one can engage in meaningful work, whether on the job or outside of work.

- Melanne Verveer

Politics is rough and tumble everywhere, and many women recoil from that negative aspect of it - the nastiness, the charges and counter-charges.

Politics is rough and tumble everywhere, and many women recoil from that negative aspect of it - the nastiness, the charges and counter-charges.

- Melanne Verveer

Women can achieve power and purpose in whatever profession they pursue, position they hold or whether they are caring for their children full time.

Women can achieve power and purpose in whatever profession they pursue, position they hold or whether they are caring for their children full time.

- Melanne Verveer

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