Give love and share happiness with the people around you, and never give up fighting for what you believe in.

Women’s loyalty has to be earned with trust and affection, rather than barbaric rituals. The time has come to leave the old ways of suffering behind

My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things can survive.

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.

Every day, women move mountains. It is an insult to have an international women's day.

I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.

I always knew, from the very day of my own mutilation, that I would one day fight against this practice. I did not know how and when, but I knew that I would fight it.

I know what I am fighting for. I am fighting for the most basic rights of innocent children. And that is why I never take the criticism too deep under my skin.

We need to empower women: provide them with work for their own income, and teach them to become independent of men so they will never have to have their children suffering the same torture.

Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

Don’t do to your daughters what has been done to you! They are perfect and beautiful.

Friendship is the best kind of ship.

Seeds are proof that the greatest growth takes place in the dark.

Order and simplification are the first steps towards mastery of a subject

How did I get where I am.” If your answer is anything but dumb luck then you are sadly deluding yourself.

Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit.

There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all.

I was born in high heels and I've worn them ever since.

I just don't like that you can either be ugly and smart or pretty and dumb, or ugly and nice or pretty and mean.

A life well used procures a happy death.

Whenever an actor was going to die, I tried to help them understand not to take it personally. It wasn't about them. It's the story.