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I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.
Waris Dirie
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Waris Dirie
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: October 21
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When I became successful as a model in the United States, I knew that my chance to be heard had come and so I took it.
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Don’t do to your daughters what has been done to you! They are perfect and beautiful.
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Mama tied a blindfold over my eyes. The next thing I felt my flesh was being cut away. I heard the blade sawing back and forth through my skin. The pain between my legs was so intense I wished I would die.
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If you can survive in the desert, you survive anywhere. I know more than anything life in desert. You can tell by looking at the dirt how long ago it rained, how hard it rained, how much water came through. You can by looking at a plant, a tree, from an animal's look. I can read the desert like I read my hand.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I belong nowhere and to no one.
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Somalia is facing many problems, I don't even know where to start.
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My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things can survive.
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