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Aminetou Mint El-Moctar Quotes

born 1956

Aminetou Mint El-Moctar (born 13 December 1956) is a Mauritania politician and women's rights activist. She was shortlisted for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015 and is the first Mauritanian woman to be considered for the award.

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Having a job and earning an income allows [women] to stand up to their families and make their own decisions.

They take it as a sign of wealth and that a girl will make a good wife.

Mauritanian men often see large girls and women as more desirable.

I will continue my path until women get the highest levels of education as a natural right, not as an exception, and enjoy full legal equality without reservations.

These are pills meant for animals, which can be even more dangerous than eating too much food.

Our homeland will not be able to achieve economic growth or political development without promoting the right of both sexes to education and raising education quality in all levels.

Human-rights activism helped me rediscover myself, refined my skills, and made me more aware of the conditions of marginalised women who are forced to drop out under the pressure of outdated social traditions.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Aminetou Mint El-Moctar (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.