Less hatred, more love, less war, more peace, more respect for the Mother Nature and for other people.

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.

To perceive is to suffer.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

Working in theater, film or television are three different jobs for an actor, and I accept them as such.

I know I have a fairly strong feminine side. I find myself really distanced from male behavior.

I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery.

I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before.

I'm not writing for myself. I'm writing as an educator, I'm writing to stimulate others.

If Bush wins, I'm going to leave the country and spend the rest of my life in France.

Excuses are for losers, and winning is for winners, like you!