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“Love has an immense ability to help heal the devastating wounds that life sometimes deals us. Love also enhances our sense of connection to the larger world. Loving responsiveness is the foundation of a truly compassionate, civilized society.”
Source : Sue Johnson (2011). “Hold Me Tight: Your Guide to the Most Successful Approach to Building Loving Relationships”, p.9, Hachette UK
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“Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source of them all, and, more than that, as a realm of pure possibility whence novel configurations of ideas and relations may arise”
Source : Victor Witter Turner (1967). “The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual”, p.97, Cornell University Press
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“A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.”
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“If you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don't understand that.”
Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. January 16, 2008. 
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“I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No individual or nation can stand out boasting of being independent, we are interdependent.”
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“It's not that I'm rebelling. It's that I'm just trying to find another way.”
Source : "Edie : Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.
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“There are two or three performances in your life that are absolutely on, where all the planets are lined up for you and you feel you're invincible.”
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“Love is fine for singing about and love songs are good to listen to, sometimes even to dance to. But when we need food for our stomachs and clothes for our backs, love is nothing. Ah my lady, the last man any woman should think of marrying is the man she loves.”
Source : Ama Ata Aidoo (2015). “Changes: A Love Story”, p.47, The Feminist Press at CUNY
