Since the 1990s, a prolific amount of memoirs written and published about the lives of girls and women in the third world appeared in the market, telling the stories of their wretched girlhood or womanhood. Those stories often depict miserable lives under the dictatorship of strict regimes or by the ＿＿（31）＿＿ of traditional cultural practices such as genital cutting. In the narration of these lives, girls and women usually suffer from different forms of gender violence. But a clear majority of those stories also ＿＿（32）＿＿ a bright side by turning those victims into heroines. They exhibit how those unfortunate girls and women eventually survive through those terrible ordeals or stand on their own two feet by fighting against all the odds. ＿＿（33）＿＿ are especially able to change things for themselves as well as their fellows of the same gender. As the first in the series, Desert Flower is Dirie's (auto)biography detailing her combat with the ＿＿（34）＿＿ of female genital mutilation (FGM). In her third book, ＿＿（35）＿＿ , Dirie works together with several allies to launch an investigation into the practice of FGM and explore the possibility of related juridical protection of girls'/women's rights in several European countries. Dirie's true story is a living proof that anyone can succeed in overcoming all the obstacles if they're brave and determined and have faith in themselves.