The best lesson that I've learned from my mother is that she just never accepted no for an answer and I think that's something that has stayed with m…

- Liya Kebede

The most inspiring piece of advice I've gotten is simply to persevere. My mom taught me to always keep going no matter what from an early age. When i…

- Liya Kebede

While I was pregnant, I had dozens of checkups. They covered everything from blood tests to ultrasounds, and I even had the option of attending birth…

- Liya Kebede

Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-ter…

- Liya Kebede

If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, y…

- Liya Kebede

In a hundred years, how do you want the world to be? Everybody should get together to make the world a better place.

- Liya Kebede

If you don't have a dream in life, I don't know what you have. You have to want something beyond your reach; it's exciting when it works out.

- Liya Kebede

I don't listen to people who say my dreams are impossible; I just work to prove them wrong.

- Liya Kebede

The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it.

- Liya Kebede