Somalia is facing many problems, I don't even know where to start.

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.

What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?

You are always going to love him, she said " You're stuck with that.

Don't try to tell me it's because I'm scared, because the truth is the only time I'm not terrified is when I'm with you.

I see a vision, its the vision of tomorrow, no force can stop it from manifesting, not even the sun nor the moon.

Writer's block, for me, is merely a way of saying "I'm too lazy to sit down and give it the proper time." I want to be a progressive writer, not a lazy one.

Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.

In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.

I wouldn't doubt it if the CIA is behind Alcoholics Anonymous.

If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.