My family is and will always stay the most important to me.

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.

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

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.

Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to speak.

It was some of Solomon’s favorite music because it was dense and intellectually complicated and he wasn’t expected to dance to it.

...in order to move forward, we cannot allow ourselves to forever dwell in the past.

I'm only remembering unnecessary things because I'm alone.

With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness.

It’s hard not to be romantic about baseball

With Christ, darkness cannot succeed. Darkness will not gain victory over the light of Christ.

Explanations don't comfort. You won't feel better if you know why. It won't hurt any less.

The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life.

No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.