Efua Dorkenoo Quotes

In the areas where FGM is going down, it has been addressed in a violence against women framework. It's a gender power control issue, and it is not something you can just educate people out of. It requires people to think that if they do it, there are ramifications. We cannot just rely on people's good will.

Efua Dorkenoo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: ghanaian
  • Birth: September 6, 1949 - October 18, 2014

Topics

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Twenty years I've been fighting Ali, and I still want to take him apart piece by piece and send him back to Jesus.

Joe Frazier

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I can't stand folk who are all snobby about reality TV.

Jenny Eclair

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America itself has been through so many challenges since that fateful day back in 1776. Our culture has been a roll-up-your-sleeves-and-go-to-work culture.

John Cena

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To fly into Moscow was a joy. I was trying to understand what people were thinking and how to earn money. In the end, I stayed.

Suleyman Kerimov

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Even when I was No. 1 in the world, I was taking it one match at a time. I never was a player to look too far ahead, the way draws can pan out.

Lleyton Hewitt

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I want to be affirmatively proud of what I have made my way through. And to do that, in the same way I had to tell my father and my family and my friends that I was gay, I need to not hide this anymore.

Christine Quinn

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As far as the public is concerned, India is amazingly secular.

Shah Rukh Khan

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There are people who compose from very young. That is not my case. I went discovering myself.

Nicky Jam

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I started being a photographer because I liked fashion. I liked the idea of dressing up and changing my look. I got earrings, dyed my hair. I would dress like a fashion photo.

Mario Testino

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I don't need many things. I don't need glamour and attention to be happy. I'm very happy being settled and working my butt off and trying to win grand slams.

Maria Sharapova

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I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat.

Markus Zusak

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Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.

Kurt Loder

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