Quotes About Female Genital Mutilation

#1. 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 crime against humanity. It's abuse. It's absolutely criminal and we have to stop it.

Waris Dirie

#2. 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.

Waris Dirie

#3. 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.

Eve Ensler

#4. While [female genital mutilation] may have not originated with Islam, it has become an integral part of the religious practice in many regions tied to notions of male dominance and control of female sexuality.

Darrel Ray

#5. Maybe the point was to exist with an absence of pain. Yes, to exist with an absence of pain. Yes, maybe that was the only aim you needed in life. It

Matt Haig

#6. Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I'm traveling, I lose energy and I can't do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I'm not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it's necessary.

Bjork

#7. People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.

Ian McKellen

#8. Those who are patient, plan. And beware the man with a plan.

Penelope Douglas

#9. The historic nature of Israel's struggle for self-determination, freedom, and prosperity underscores the gravity of their circumstances and fortifies my commitment to America's responsibility as their ally.

Pete Hegseth

#10. If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and domestic abuse, everything, we lose about 6 million humans every year just because they were born female. That's a holocaust every year.

Gloria Steinem

#11. Walking together and exchanging kisses.
Holding hands like we're Mr. and Mrs.

Vineeza Shakeeb

#12. None of them going to treat me bad, honey, I'm too strict for that.

Alberta Hunter

#13. If you're not settled spiritually, things can be a little bit more chaotic than normal.

Emmitt Smith

#14. The erruption of feelings & emotions that follows a near-death exerience, or any event that causes us to stop & look deeply at the reality of our lives, is ripe with the potential for insight & clarity.

Allan Lokos

#15. On a Terrence Malick set, your thoughts are his voice. You think you're thinking, but actually he's thinking for you. He speaks to you, and he's the voice in your mind.

Olga Kurylenko

#16. In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.

Jonathan Lethem

#17. In the words of the old song, it's a long time from May to December but, you know, it's an equally long time from December to May.

Jimmy Hill

#18. When you do a film, all you want is to make the best film possible. You don't think about Oscars. But it's really flattering. Please, bring it on!

Demian Bichir