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 it, buy it.

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

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 can survive.

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.

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

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

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

I always knew, from the very day of my own mutilation, that I would one day fight against this practice. I did not know how and when, but I knew that I would fight it.

I know what I am fighting for. I am fighting for the most basic rights of innocent children. And that is why I never take the criticism too deep under my skin.

We need to empower women: provide them with work for their own income, and teach them to become independent of men so they will never have to have their children suffering the same torture.

Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

The value of an individual is measured based on productivity, creativity, and contribution to the organization today and tomorrow.

Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source.

I used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one.

We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.

I think theater has given me the opportunity to show what a character actor I can be.

For many artists the universe is expanding; for some it is contracting.

I'm not some sort of puppet. Like, there isn't a team of people telling me what to do.

Swift as the wind. Quiet as the forest. Conquer like the fire. Steady as the mountain

Language is the soul’s ozone layer and we thin it at our peril.

To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand, Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.