Quotes by : Mariama Bâ

And also, one is a mother in order to understand the inexplicable. One is a mother to lighten the darkness.....

Each life has its share of heroism, an obscure heroism, born of abdication, of renunciation and acceptance....

Books saved you. Having become your refuge, they sustained you. The power of books, this marvelous invention....

My horizon lightened, I see an old woman. Who is she? Where is she from? Bent over, the ends of her boubou....

Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill....