Mariama Ba Quotes

#1. Each profession, intellectual or manual, deserves consideration, whether it requires painful physical effort or manual dexterity, wide knowledge or or the patience of an ant.

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#2. The word 'happiness' does indeed have meaning, doesn't it? I shall go out in search of it.

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#3. The flavour of life is love. The salt of life is also love.

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#4. I am one of those who can realize themselves fully and bloom only when they form part of a couple. Even though I understand your stand, even though I respect the choice of liberated women, I have never conceived of happiness outside of marriage.

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#5. Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love.

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#6. Each life has its share of heroism, an obscure heroism, born of abdication, of renunciation and acceptance under the merciless whip of fate.

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#7. A nervous breakdown waits around the corner for anyone who lets himself wallow in bitterness. Little by little, it takes over your whole being.

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#8. And also, one is a mother in order to understand the inexplicable. One is a mother to lighten the darkness. One is a mother to shield when lightning streaks the night, when thunder shakes the earth, when mud bogs one down. One is a mother in order to love without beginning or end.

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#9. I then watched filing past and besieging me old men in search of easy revenue, young men in search of adventure to occupy their leisure. My successive refusals gave me in town the reputation of a 'lioness' or 'mad woman.' Who let loose this greedy pack of hounds after me?

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#10. The most humble of huts is pleasing when it is clean; the most luxurious setting offers no attraction if it is covered in dust.

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#11. In a word, a man's success depends on feminine support.

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#12. Eternal woman: even in mourning, you want to make a strike, you want to seduce, you want to arouse interest!

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#13. A woman must marry the man who loves her, but never the one she loves; that is the secret of lasting happiness.

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