Paul Merton

I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?

British Comedian

Nicholas Kristof

There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in.

American Journalist

Molly Ivins

Having breast cancer is massive amounts of no fun. First they mutilate you; then they poison you; then they burn you. I have been on blind dates better than that.

Michelle Bachelet

In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some countries they even mutilate women.

Chilean Politician

Sienna Miller

You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure.

American Actress

Chris Hedges

Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.

Mary Docter

I've been so mutilated by a lot of articles. I know I haven't said a lot of things I'm quoted as saying in the papers.

American Athlete

Jack Nicholson

I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.

American Actor

Elie Wiesel

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

American Novelist

Simone Weil

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

French Philosopher

Mutilate implies severe physical damage, often beyond repair.

Physical Damage

Mutilate usually suggests the damage was caused deliberately.

Intentional Act

The word carries a strong negative connotation, indicating revulsion or horror.

Severe Connotation

When mutilating a work, the act decreases its value, meaning, or function.

Altering Significance

Mutilating art or documents can symbolize disrespect to a culture or group.

Cultural Destruction

In medicine, mutilate is used for drastic procedures removing body parts.

Medical Amputation

Medical mutilation is often a last resort to save the patient's life or health.

Last Resort

In psychology, to mutilate can mean self-harm through serious physical injury.

Self-Inflicted Harm

Mutilation may signal deep psychological issues and need for help.

Psychological Distress

 and they would not have gotten some of those stories without female reporters and editors on the ground, particularly one on female genital mutilation -- men would just not be allowed into those situations. This is an important point to consider, because much of our foreign policy now revolves around countries

Megan Kamerick: Women...

 Very sad. The ancient Egyptians would have dreaded this kind of mutilation. They went to huge lengths to mummify and protect their dead believing that to succeed in the afterlife, key elements of the body and soul must be preserved intact.

The Mummy's Curse PIPE Lost...

 the confusion that I felt, because now I realized that what was done to me was a terrible thing that in this society was called barbaric, it was called mutilation. My mother had said it was called circumcision, but here it was mutilation.

Khadija Gbla: My...

 an end to racial discrimination against girls and women all over the world. The average woman in Egypt doesn't have much to say about her daughters getting genitally mutilated and so forth. I didn't even go down to detail about that.

Jimmy Carter: Why I...

 and I spent my childhood helping my mother cook, clean, farm and take care of my siblings. Like other Maasai girls, I was engaged from a very young age to be married. But as I reached puberty, I underwent female genital mutilation,

Empower a girl,...

 He cultivated a movement for women’s liberation, outlawing forced marriages, polygamy and genital mutilation. He was the first African leader to appoint women to key political positions and actively recruit them to the military.

The life, legacy &...

 trying to help us all refuse the awful bargains we've been taught to take. We're taught to turn ourselves and our work into little nuggets that are easily digestible; taught to mutilate ourselves so that we make sense to others,

Embrace your raw,...

 stalled, maimed, wounded, mangled, lame, mutilated, run-down, worn-out, weakened, impotent, castrated, paralyzed, handicapped, senile, decrepit, laid-up, done-up, done-for, done-in

The opportunity of...

 and female genital mutilation. It's vital and important art, but it cannot be the only art that comes out of the continent. We have to tell more stories that are vibrant.

Fun, Fierce and...

 center for girls and they're there this very courageous Masai woman who decided to challenge the tradition of female genital mutilation and also start to try