Fistulas Quotes & Sayings

The challenge today is to prod the world to face up to women locked in brothels and teenage girls with fistulas curled up on the floor of isolated huts. We hope to see a broad movement emerge to battle gender inequality around the world and to push for education and opportunities for girls around the world. — Nicholas D. Kristof

When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up, Opened in airs of June her multiple OF golden chalices to humming birds And silken-wing'd insects of the sky. — William C. Bryant

Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top. — Rumi

If the real radical finds that having long hair sets up psychological barriers to communication and organization, he cuts his hair. If I were organizing in an orthodox Jewish community, I would not walk in there eating a ham sandwich unless I wanted to be rejected so I could have an excuse to cop out. — Saul Alinsky

I'm not one for blaspheming, but that one made me laugh. — Morgan Freeman

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop. — Bono

Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time. — Bo Bennett

When all the other children of Adam have had the privilege of receiving the Priesthood, and of coming into the kingdom of God, and of being redeemed from the four quarters of the earth, and HAVE RECEIVED THEIR RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD, then it will be time enough to remove the curse from Cain and his posterity. — Brigham Young

My friends ask me why I still live with my family, but I feel comfortable there. We've all been through so much together. — Shaun White

[referencing African girls with no medical care while giving birth and the devastating fistulas they are left with untreated] Instead of receiving treatment, these young girls--often just girls of fifteen or sixteen--typically find their lives effectively over. They are divorced from their husbands and, because they emit a terrible odor from their wastes, are often forced to live in a hut by themselves on the edge of the village. Eventually, they starve to death or die of an infection that progresses along the birth canal. The fistula patient is the modern-day leper," notes Ruth Kennedy, a British nurse-midwife. — Nicholas D. Kristof

You may think that you know nothing, yet all wisdom is yours.
Unlearn what your mind accepted as the only way.
Remember what you have forgotten.
Receive what you desire, and know that you receive what you focus on through your feelings.
Desire nothing but wisdom, and your path will lead you straight on. — Raphael Zernoff

I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside. — Zoe Saldana

I had to close the door on our friendship, because he kept climbing in through my window. — Jarod Kintz

Information on UFOs, including sighting reports, has been and is still being officially withheld. — Gordon Cooper

To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one. — Morrissey

In Australia, they had never seen a single case of fistula; in Ethiopia, they encountered fistulas constantly. These are the women most to be pitied in the world. They're alone in the world, ashamed of their injuries. For lepers or AIDS victims, there are organizations that help. But nobody knows about these women or helps them. — Nicholas D. Kristof

Heads will fly all over the place, others will explode by themselves, everyone will have their chance to betray, and those who don't betray will be betrayed. — Sandro Veronesi