“Our uterus, which is our most sacred internal organ, should be untouchable, and it is our human right to have the right to have children and start a family. No government should decide over our uterus.”
A statement of bodily autonomy made by a survivor of Denmark's coerced IUD fitting of Greenlandic women and girls (the "spiral case"), asserting that such decisions belong to the woman alone.
— naja-lyberth, Greenland
Source: Naja Lyberth, Greenlandic survivor of the IUD "spiral case", quoted in UNRIC, "Speaking up for women in Greenland spiral case: 'We were frozen in our bodies for decades'"
More Proverbs from Greenland
He who rests, rusts.
Constant motion, work, and effort keep a person capable; standing still leads to decline.
Old age does not lie.
The knowledge and judgment built up over a long life can be trusted.
The world is great indeed.
A lifetime of travel and effort reveals just how vast and humbling the world truly is.
Be careful never to tell what you have seen, or it will go ill with your hunting hereafter.
Boasting about good fortune, especially in hunting, is believed to turn luck bad; discretion protects what you have gained.
The human soul is what makes you beautiful, what makes you into a human being.
Inner character and spirit, not outward appearance, define a person's true worth.
Nature is great; but are not men greater?
Human endurance and the works people build are, in their own way, as remarkable as the vastness of nature itself.