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“But I was not a mouse. In the fields where I walked, I was much more interested in the actions of the hawks.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Marriage of Opposites

“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
― José Ortega y Gasset

“Pride is an evil dragon; it sleeps underneath your heart and then roars when you need silence.”
― Jodi Picoult, Small Great Things

“the part of the brain, physiologically, that allows us to blame everything on people we do not really know is the same part of the brain that allows us to have compassion for strangers”
― Jodi Picoult, Small Great Things

“She had gambled with marriage, just like most people, but she had gambled unluckily and had lost.”
― Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen

“Dreams soon assume substance”
― Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen

“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.”
― Mariama Bâ, So Long a Letter

“The word 'happiness' does indeed have meaning, doesn't it? I shall go out in search of it.”
― Mariama Bâ, So Long a Letter

“Books saved you. Having become your refuge, they sustained you. The power of books, this marvelous invention of astute human intelligence. Various signs associated with sound: different sounds that form the word. Juxtaposition of words from which springs the idea, Thought, History, Science, Life. Sole instrument of interrelationships and of culture, unparalleled means of giving and receiving. Books knit generations together in the same continuing effort that leads to progress. They enabled you to better yourself. What society refused you, they granted.”
― Mariama Bâ, So Long a Letter

“The most humble of huts is pleasing when it is clean; the most luxurious setting offers no attraction if it is covered in dust.”
― Mariama Bâ, So Long a Letter

“In a word, a man's success depends on feminine support.”
― Mariama Bâ, So Long a Letter

“You forget that I have a heart, a mind, that I am not an object to be passed from hand to hand. You don’t know what marriage means to me: it is an act of faith and love, the total surrender of oneself to the person one has chosen and who has chosen you.”
― Mariama Bâ, So Long a Letter

“The mother of a family has no time to travel, but she had time to die”
― Mariama Bâ, By Mariama Ba Une Si Longue Lettre (French Edition) [Paperback]