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Jaha Dukureh Quotes

1989–1990 Gambia

Jaha Dukureh (born 1989 or 1990) is a Gambian women's right activist and anti-female genital mutilation campaigner. Dukureh was subjected to female genital mutilation in the Gambia when she was a little more than a week old.

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Random Jaha Dukureh quote

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They’re denying a lot of the pain that women and girls are going through, and just calling it Western influence.

I can’t tell you the amount of times in a day that I hear that I’m going to hell.

I remember feeling silenced and alone,the pain was almost too much to bear.

This is a battle of women around the world—because you may not sound like me, you may not look like me, but what they are trying to do to our bodies is the same everywhere.

These issues are personal to me, they’re part of my life history. We won’t have equality until girls can grow up with control over their own bodies and futures.

It was important to lead an organization that was by people like us, who have lived experience and know how to tackle these issues in a respectful manner.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jaha Dukureh (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.