I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.

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

Many friends have expressed concern that a religious fanatic will try to kill me when I go to Africa. After all, I’ll be speaking out against a crime many fundamentalists consider a holy practice. I’m sure my work will be dangerous, and I admit to being scared…. But my faith tells me to be strong, that God led me down this path for a reason. He has work for me to do. This is my mission. And I believe that long before the day I was born, God chose the day I will die, so I can’t change that. In the meantime, I might as well take a chance, because that’s what I’ve done all my life.

I belong nowhere and to no one.

I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.

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

Every day, women move mountains. It is an insult to have an international women's day.