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

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.

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

The more dysfunctional, the more some family members seek to control the behavior of others.

Today is a gift.Today is all I have.I will be fully awake in today.

Call it a clan call it a network call it a tribe call it a family: Whatever you call it whoever you are you need one.

I hated high school. I didn't have any friends because I didn't fit in.

Collaboration is a nice change of pace from the often solitary nature of the writer's craft.

I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.

You can fight against people, and fight to the death, but ... can't control the world.

To me, with age, everything has gotten better. You have way more control; you know yourself better.

The US will increasingly see the risks of being left behind, and ten years from now they would have to start worrying about being shut out of markets because their production is dirty.

If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.