Mariama Bâ famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • 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...

  • 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?

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

  • I am not interested in immortality but only in tea flavour.

  • There are different flavours of sexiness.