“Failing to listen to the woman is one of the biggest mistakes a practitioner can make.”

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”

“There were days when he touched the tip of her nose and it was enough, a miracle of plenty.But who finds happiness interesting?One day the woman stamped her foot and wished her man dead. So he died. (And now you know what a Yoruba woman can be like sometimes.)”

“the mistakes you regret the most in your life are the ones you didn't commit when you had the chance”

“The biggest mistake a woman can make is not to be herself in public or private.”

“One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.”

“We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.”