Stella Nyanzi Quotes

I fled to get my voice back. I fled to get my mind back. I fled to get my freedom back.

I think if I weren’t a mother, I probably wouldn’t do at least ¾ of the activism I’ve done.

Motherhood is important for me because everything I do is about creating a better legacy for my children.

I think it is very liberating to embrace the many forms of motherhood in all its diversity. We must not be trapped by homogenous ideas of motherhood

Good girls and respectable women are trained to avoid taboo topics and “bad words” particularly in their public articulations.

I encourage emerging writers to practice writing daily if this is possible. Writing is a craft that gets better with practice. It is impossible to write a perfect script, and thus while editing and revision make finished products better, it is necessary to let go of revised drafts by submitting them to potential publishers.

My multiple identities empower me to fashion my writing into an effective weapon fighting against injustices meted out by holders of abusive power onto underprivileged groups in society.

When I put my nipples on the frontline, I learnt they fight harder than any bazookas. Men don't know how to deal with that.

I also get a lot of motivation from my children because if I didn't have children, I would not need to change the world.

Double standards demand that feminine respectability bars women from articulating, writing, or deploying words, concepts, and ideas deemed to be taboo subjects.

I don't get inspired by high and mighty women, it's everyday women. It's grandmothers, stepmothers, second wives, all swearing at their men.

But do women have agency to enter politics on their own? Or must we be beholden forever to male patriarchs, and misogynistic dictators, to whom we are answerable for our political participation?

A lot of what I do is really related to my position in the world as a woman for whom a lot of things don't come easy. Public health services don't work, the education doesn't work for my children, we struggle a lot and that's why I do what I do.

Men with guns can't shoot at nipples.

The transgressive reversal of my role as an elite academic who chooses to write for (sexual and gender) minorities, poor people, and the political opposition party members further enhances the shock element within my audacity.