

“I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.”
― The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
― The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

“You have your milk,” he said. “Where there is milk, there is hope.”
― Fortunately, the Milk
― Fortunately, the Milk

“The press, the media, the internet—they'll make the noise, make the screaming, the screaming all the time, and the truth and my voice will be lost. The blaming and the noise, human things, they'll make it about human things, not the truth. How can anyone live with it? How can anyone live with so much screaming in their lives, all the time?”
― The Sudden Appearance of Hope
― The Sudden Appearance of Hope

“In 1789 the French rebelled and found an emperor. The Americans found their freedom from the British and enslaved the Africans. The Arab Spring bloomed and the military and the jihadists seized power. The internet gave us all the power of speech, and what did we discover? That victory goes to he who shouts the loudest, and that reason does not sell.”
― The Sudden Appearance of Hope
― The Sudden Appearance of Hope

“If more women were in power, they wouldn't let wars break out," she said. "Women can't be bothered with all this fighting. We see war for what it is- a matter of broken bodies and crying mothers.”
― The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
― The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
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