Waris Dirie Quotes

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• Mama tied a blindfold over my eyes. The next thing I felt my flesh was being cut away. I heard the blade sawing back and…
• Don’t do to your daughters what has been done to you! They are perfect and beautiful.
• Laws are important. But they can only be effective if the people know about the particular laws.
• FGM breaches all human rights and has no place in any 21st century society.
• Female genital mutilation targets little girls, baby girls - fragile angels who are helpless, who cannot fight back. It's a crime against a child, a…
• Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
• Every day, women move mountains. It is an insult to have an international women's day.
• I belong nowhere and to no one.
• I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.
• I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.
• I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.
• Personal style? I don't really believe in that. Whatever is comfortable.
• Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
• 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…
• Fashion is fun, ridiculously fun. But it's base and it's wrong. You're not doing anything good for the world. You're just saying, 'Buy it, buy…
• I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or…
• I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying…
• If you can survive in the desert, you survive anywhere. I know more than anything life in desert. You can tell by looking at the…
• 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…
• 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…

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