This is about the countless girls, women, boys, men, and elders all over Kenya and Africa who dare today are working to bring female genital mutilati… - Nice Nailantei Leng'ete

Remember, they don't know how circumcision is done for girls or women, because they are not allowed to be there. ... They don't know where it's cut, or what is being done to them

They will say, 'We did this because we believed in it, but now we want to encourage girls to go back to school,

And the second toast is to my elder sister, Soila, she was with me the first time I ran away, but the next time I escaped, she gave up because of the beatings we received from our family members. She was first one that got the cut at the age of ten, and since that was the only way she will be considered a woman in my own community, and that’s why I do this work today because of the sacrifice she made for me then