Every woman is, or ought to be, concerned about sexual mutilation practised on the body of another, whoever she may be

Every woman is, or ought to be, concerned about sexual mutilation practised on the body of another, whoever she may be. But it remains for the excised and infibulated women themselves, being opposed to these practices and aware of their harmful consequences, to say publicly that they want an end to these ancestral customs; and to translate their words into action in their daily lives.”