I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

I want to make young girls believe that all things are possible. You know they can do exactly or even better than what I'm doing right now. I'm not any super girl from one unique place. No, I'm a local girl from Ughelli. So if this local girl can do it, can come this far from nothing to become something, then you also can do it.

She did what no one had thought possible.

You have no idea how quickly a girl grows up.

I actually go, 'Wow! How lucky can a girl get?

No one in the world like my sister Birdie.

Because I was really white and because a cruel fairy stepmother, who was understandably jealous of my beauty, had turned me into a too-big Negro girl, with nappy black hair, broad feet and a space between her teeth that would hold a number-two pencil.

For a girl who left her village without shoes on her feet in pursuit of higher education, there's a lot she can be proud of.

And you thought you could change the world by opening your legs Well, it isn't very hard Try kicking them instead. And you thought you could change his mind by changing your perfume to the kind his mother wore Oh God, Delilah, why?
I never met a more impossible girl.

We are proud of her achievement. In India there are not many other young female role models like her.