Kakenya Ntaiya Quotes

I'm lucky, I only fainted and came back to life.

I knew that I wanted something different. So, instead of focusing on being intimidated, I focused on education. I focused on going to school and making sure I stayed there.

If you want to get married, you can get married. You have to choose to whom you get married and when the right time is. Marriage is a lot of work. But there is no pressure, the time will come, and there are a lot of men out there!

I was told it's what will make me a woman. I didn't know that it's something that is done very... it's horrible, you are cut, your genitalia is cut, no anesthesia, you bleed and some people die out of it.

I wanted to continue with school because my mother was denied an education and she always told us if she went to school she would have been a different person, so I talked to my dad and told him I can only go through the genital mutilation if he lets me go back to school.

I went through the genital mutilation not knowing what it was.

I could've easily given up but I didn't. All my breakdowns are breakthroughs. I believe I need them in order to push through.

But when you give a girl an opportunity, she will never, ever embarrass you or let you down.

My education has enabled me to learn about it and now I stand against it and stand so that no other girl can go through that.