24 quotes found
"Girls education benefits on herself, her family, her community, her nation."
"Unless all our children are in school, we can’t talk about development. Development will not come from minerals and oil; it will come from the people themselves. It is the way they think and how productive they are in whatever they do"
"We need to train thinkers and innovators. These are people who can make it wherever they go"
"Family is central as far as we are concerned l guess that why we have always been partners."
"Educating a girl is educating a nation. When you educate a woman, you have educated a whole community"
"If teacher are professional and they know any child can learn, any student can learn any subject literally the children will do well"
"Quite often, my advice has been on using power of pen not guns to fight ones right."
"I am inspired by successful women who do things that were previously only done by men; women who can create and succeed and who are confident."
"If you do not have confidence you might as well be dead."
"I have no fear. True, I fear God, but I do not fear what people will say. My success has been driven by my confidence and lack of fear. I believe that I can do what others can."
"Throughout my life's journey as a strong woman, I have enjoyed the support of many. At the same time, I have suffered because I am a woman. I never forget that after being declared the best creative writer and best producer at Voice of Kenya, I was not recommended for promotion. Another person was appointed above me and I was expected to be his assistant."
"Muthoni Likimani belongs to a group of unsung heroines, more so because she penned her works from the heart, exuding a fighting spirit that epitomises her historical role as a freedom fighter and chronicler of a peoples’ culture and livelihood. Her natural smile radiates the warmth of the connection her fictional characters have with the audience. Indeed, as I read her works I see that radiance of a gallant personality to read more, hear more and see more."
"Today I felt so good when my student flew me. Captain Jibril was one very disciplined and focused student in his primary school, May Allah grant him success in dunya and aqheera (earth and heaven)."
"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!"
"But when you give a girl an opportunity, she will never, ever embarrass you or let you down."
"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."
"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 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'm lucky, I only fainted and came back to life."
"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."
"There is no age when you cannot use technology. A professor at my university asked me if, at 70, he was too old to learn technology. I told him no, technology is accessible to everyone – and these days that professor carries a laptop. As long as somebody gives you the confidence you can do it. This is what is so mis- sing from so many of our girls. They need confidence. We need to de-mystify technology, there is nothing hard about using a computer."
"Adagala was my aunt, teacher and mentor. She taught me the meaning of infatuation. I had always assumed it meant deep love. But she corrected that infatuation was maddening obsession with or for something or anyone usually ending in disaster."