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Hawa Abdi

"When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and I could not know how to help her. And my mother died in front of my eyes, without knowing why, which diagnosis. So I decided to be a doctor."

Source : "Part 2: “Keeping Hope Alive” in Somalia with Hawa Abdi and Daughter Deqo Mohamed". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. April 16, 2013.

Hawa Abdi

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Pain Quotes

“Today's trend ends up in tomorrow's landfill.”
“There's over 100 species of lemurs. Each is a little bit different in their social structure except for one thing: they are all female dominant. The females are the leaders. They are the ones that call the shots. When you watch a group, you can see the females are the first one to say â€œWeâ€™re going to move.â€ Then she moves off and everybody just follows.”
“I had to make squirrel noises as Bubbles and without realizing it, I was making the face and putting my fingers up to my face to look like a squirrel and everyone made fun of me for the rest of the day.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not much more difficult to satisfy than those of the brute. Hence luxury in all its forms; delicate food, the use of tobacco and opium, spirituous liquors, fine clothes, and the thousand and one things that he considers necessary to his existence.”
“In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the first night. And I just wish we could devise a system where critics came not on a single evening but were given a choice of performances to attend.”
“For some moments in life there are no words.”
“The family is where we are formed as people. Every family is a brick in the building of society”
“Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.”

"When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and I could not know how to help her. And my mother died in front of my eyes, without knowing why, which diagnosis. So I decided to be a doctor."

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