I wanted to die, then. I wanted to destroy the body I was trapped in, become what she was, no matter what… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Part of the main plan of imperialism... is that we will give you your history, we will write it for you, we… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I've seen many men die right in front of me - so many in fact that I've become almost hardened to it.… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
I think the picture in Jet magazine showing Emmett Till's mutilation was probably the greatest media product in the last forty or… — Charles Diggs Copy Share Image
[Transsexual surgery] could be likened to political psychiatry in the Soviet Union. I suggest that transsexualism should best be seen in this… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
After all, [female genital mutilation is] a key pillar of institutional misogyny in Islam: its entire purpose is to deny women sexual… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The function of education has never been to free the mind and the spirit of man, but to bind them; and to… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
Well, of course there’s my own experience of being mutilated as a little child. Having gone through this cruel practice and all… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
I have often felt like I was the only one fighting against female genital mutilation. There is still a huge taboo surrounding… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
Until you have looked in depth at the system and found out where women in Egypt are not being cut through female… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
“The child tends to be stripped of all social influences but those of the market place, all sense of place, function and… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
Our characteristic response to the mutilated statue, the bronze dug up from the earth, is revealing. It is not that we prefer… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
“I have never seen a place like Paris for varieties of sexual provender. as soon as a woman loses a front tooth… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor... It's designed to repress sexual pleasure... The… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
As Elders we have great respect for all religions and traditions as important forces that bind people together. Faith and tradition provide… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
“I feel that God made my body perfect the way I was born. Then man robbed me, took away my power, and… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
Mutilation is the badge that can never be taken off, and sets us apart from all others. Pain is important to the… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I had a hard time watching "Wolf Creek." It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“I didn't respond to him. Couldn't speak at all. Couldn't look at his self-mutilation--not even the clean, bandaged version of it. Instead,… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“The African specialist Nahid Toubia puts it plain [when speaking of female genital mutilation]: In a man it would range from amoutation… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Non-Western immigrants, often Muslims, are over-represented in statistics of crime, of dependency on social benefits, that we have honour killings, that we… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
“Widespread mutilation seems to have originated in Stone Age central Africa and traveled north, down the Nile, into ancient Egypt. It wasn’t… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market… — Abigail Van Buren Copy Share Image
Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“How did one even fraternize with people who could not entertain vivid scenarios of self-mutilation? How was the sexual act even possible… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The rule in our society is that while those who kill once make wretched a single person are severely punished, those (heads… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
Female genital mutilation targets little girls, baby girls - fragile angels who are helpless, who cannot fight back. It's a crime against… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
Because women and girls are not valued equally as human beings, they are treated as less than such. Female genital mutilation is… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation. — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that… — Arthur Adamov Copy Share Image
![“[Transsexual surgery] could be likened to political psychiatry in the Soviet Union. I suggest that transsexualism should best be seen in this light, as directly political, medical abuse of human rights. The mutilation of healthy bodies and the subjection of such bodies to dangerous and…” quote by Sheila Jeffreys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d4d/sheila-jeffreys-20069_abuse_transsexual-surgery-could-be-likened-to_2427291.jpg)
![“After all, [female genital mutilation is] a key pillar of institutional misogyny in Islam: its entire purpose is to deny women sexual pleasure. True, a lot of us hapless western men find we deny women sexual pleasure without even trying, but we don't demand genital mutilation to guarantee it. On…” quote by Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f52/mark-steyn-1844_civilization_after-all-female-genital-mutilation-is-a_1656323.jpg)
![“The African specialist Nahid Toubia puts it plain [when speaking of female genital mutilation]: In a man it would range from amoutation of most of the penis, to "removal of all the penis, its roots of soft tissue and part of the scrotal skin.” quote by Eve Ensler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/59c/eve-ensler-1402_genital-mutilation_the-african-specialist-nahid-toubia-puts_384212.jpg)
