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Kakenya Ntaiya Quotes

born 1978 Kenya

Kakenya Ntaiya (born 1978) is a Kenyan educator, feminist and social activist. She is the founder and president of the Kakenya Center for Excellence and recipient of the CNN Top Ten Hero of the Year (2013)

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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.

But when you give a girl an opportunity, she will never, ever embarrass you or let you down.

I went through the genital mutilation not knowing what it was.

I'm lucky, I only fainted and came back to life.

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.

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