"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."

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Source : Ama Ata Aidoo (2015). “Changes: A Love Story”, p.47, The Feminist Press at CUNY

Ama Ata Aidoo

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“As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.”
“Most girls don't know what to do with what they've got.”

Source : "Here They Are Jayne Mansfield". Book by Raymond Strait, 1992.
“Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.”

Source : Ben Marcus (2012). “The Flame Alphabet”, p.269, Vintage
“I think every year you're in the NFL you probably lose three or five years off your lifespan.”
“One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!”

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“The spiritual leader should outpace the rest of the church, above all, in prayer.”
“It is a fair question whether the results of these things have induced among us in a large class of well-to-do people, with little muscular activity, a habit of excessive eating [particularly fats and sweets] and may be responsible for great damage to health, to say nothing of the purse.”
“When you stop looking for something, you see it right in front of you.”

Source : Eleanor Coppola (1979). “Notes”, Simon & Schuster

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