I am strong, determined, impulsive, happy, and emotional.

Give love and share happiness with the people around you, and never give up fighting for what you believe in.

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

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 belong nowhere and to no one.

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 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 disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets.