Afrifem Quotes & Sayings

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world. — Taylor Caldwell

I have never met an author who was sorry he or she wrote a book. They are only sorry they did not write it sooner. — Sam Horn

I am an artist because the knot is so powerful I just can not, nor want to be, anything else or do anything else. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Ah, professor, if only you had discovered a way of rejuvenating hair! Chapter 2 — Mikhail Bulgakov

The problem of life is not to make life easier, but to make men stronger. — David Starr Jordan

Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country served by slaying its able bodied men in thousands? — Marie Corelli

In being everything for everyone, when am I anything for myself? — Malebo Sephodi

The girl's face hollowed with resignation; it had been a long time, but Sonja remembered what it was to have that face, what it was to feel you were no brighter than the dumbest man, no stronger than the weakest boy, and with those ideas crowding your head no wonder subordination was the only inevitable outcome. — Anthony Marra

Commonsense will never come from following your heart; wisdom is only stored in the mind. — Shannon L. Alder

Then you love it. For if you fear it because it is stronger than you, hate it because you fear it, you love it. For you cannot subject it to yourself. One loves only the things one cannot conquer. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

How do I negotiate my way across life with a system that I find so violent yet it seems so normal to many others? — Malebo Sephodi

In the symbiotic community of the forest, not only trees but also shrubs and grasses - and possibly all plant species - exchange information this way. However, when we step into farm fields, the vegetation becomes very quiet. Thanks to selective breeding, our cultivated plants have, for the most part, lost their ability to communicate above or below ground - you could say they are deaf and dumb - and therefore they are easy prey for insect pests.12 That is one reason why modern agriculture uses so many pesticides. Perhaps farmers can learn from the forests and breed a little more wildness back into their grain and potatoes so that they'll be more talkative in the future. Communication — Peter Wohlleben

I work seven days a week, from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. I have the titles of the next eight novels I want to write. I feel myself pitiable, degraded on a day that I don't write. — Orhan Pamuk

I do criticise the narrative that excludes women and continually put men in the forefront. — Malebo Sephodi

On December 1, 2012, I received my first communication from Edward Snowden, — Anonymous

Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?"
"I guess it depends on how you die. — Haruki Murakami