Each life has its share of heroism, an obscure heroism, born of abdication, of renunciation and acceptance under the merciless whip of fate. - Mariama Bâ

We saw everything through the same eyes before we were married… But now we seem to be divided over everything.

Try explaining to them that a working woman is no less responsible for her home. Try explaining to them that nothing is done if you do not step in, that you have to see to everything, do everything all over again: cleaning up, cooking, ironing. There are the children to be washed, the husband to be looked after. The working woman has a dual task, of which both halves, equally arduous, must be reconciled.

The most humble of huts is pleasing when it is clean; the most luxurious setting offers no attraction if it is covered in dust.