72 Quotes by Amanda Lindhout

I think that I find a lot of my healing out in the world.

Maintaining my dignity is so important for me.

What a woman is taught, she shares with her family.

I used my captors' names every chance I had. It was intentional, a way of reminding them that I saw them, of pegging them, of making them see me in return.

The same men who are placing all these outrageous restrictions on women’s freedoms in southern Somalia – that type of mentality – that’s what I had to deal with in captivity.

For a while, the world for me was like a set of monkey bars. I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at some point my arms... would give out, and I'd fall to the ground.

Friendships that don't fit my life anymore have faded away, and new ones have come in.

Getting on a plane is hard for me, but I do it, because travel is vital to me.

Hillary Clinton has a strong and powerful voice regarding ending violence against women and girls.