Mariama Bâ quotes

“The flavour of life is love. The salt of life is also love.”
-- Mariama Bâ

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“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

Source : Mariama Bâ (1989). “So Long a Letter”, p.54, Heinemann

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“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.”
-- Mariama Bâ

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“A nervous breakdown waits around the corner for anyone who lets himself wallow in bitterness. Little by little, it takes over your whole being.”
-- Mariama Bâ

Source : Mariama Bâ (1989). “So Long a Letter”, p.41, Heinemann

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“A woman should marry the man who loves her, but never the one that she loves; that is the secret of lasting happiness.”
-- Mariama Bâ

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“I remain persuaded of the inevitable and necessary complementarity of man and woman. Love, imperfect as it may be in its content and expression, remains the natural link between these two beings. To love one another! If only each partner could move sincerely towards the other! If each could only melt into the other! If each would only accept the other's qualities instead of listing his faults! If each could only correct bad habits without harping on about them!”
-- Mariama Bâ

Source : Mariama Bâ (1989). “So Long a Letter”, p.88, Heinemann

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“A woman must marry the man who loves her but never the one she loves; that is the secret of lasting happiness.”
-- Mariama Bâ

Source : "So Long a Letter".

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“Any man worth his salt loves a feminist. Only men who are afraid of the feminine in themselves are afraid of women.”

“Such exaggerations have been so common that the public takes them with a grain of salt and partly excuses them as being due to the advertiser's license of self-assertiveness. Nevertheless, the fact remains that superlative generalities are weak arguments and far less convincing than a statement of facts. Much advertising copy would be improved immensely by doing away with brag and substituting actual facts about the merits of the article.”

“There is no savor more sweet, more salt than to be glad to be what, woman, and who, myself, I am...”

Source : Denise Levertov (1967). “The Sorrow Dance: Poems”, [New York] : New Directions

“Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow. If we do not perpetually draw the fresh supply from the living Fountain, we shall either grow stagnant or empty, It is, therefore, not so much a perpetual fullness as a perpetual filling.”

“The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.”

“I've got the 30 drive right now. You turn 30, I don't know, life is exciting again; thirties is when you've got it all figured out. You start reaching some of your goals, and achieving some great things.”

“You know, either I'm too fat or I'm flavour of the month. I don't feel either, but maybe I'm both, who knows?”

Source : The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.

“One can always find inflationary models to explain whatever phenomenon is represented by the flavour of the month.”

Source : "The Dark Side of the Universe". Astronomy and Geophysics, April 2007.

“I am not interested in immortality but only in tea flavour.”

“There are different flavours of sexiness.”