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Quotes from The River and the Source — Margaret Ogola

1958–2011 Kenya

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Her therapy was simple for there is no greater psychologist than the one who graduates from the hard school of life.

The River and the Source (1994)

How can you know where you are going if you do not know where you are coming from?

The River and the Source (1994)

I have heard rumours also; but most say it is just Western propaganda. Anyway you doctors can do miracles these days. A mere VD cannot elude a cure for too long.

The River and the Source (1994)

He’d better be careful; I hear there is a disease called AIDS waiting to pounce on any careless person these days

The River and the Source (1994)

A home without daughters is like a spring without a source

The River and the Source (1994)

You may be twice my size, but I have three times your courage

The River and the Source (1994)

Bitterness is poison to the spirit for it breeds nothing but vipers some of which might consume your very self. Pain and sorrow all humans feel; but bitterness drops on the spirit like aloes—causing it to wither.

The River and the Source (1994)

All the fears of her childhood were coming back. There was a vice-like band around her head and she thought she would faint. In her head one thought went round and round, beating its wings like a trapped bird. “My child - not you, not you!

The River and the Source (1994)

The women’s halls of residence, ‘the Box’ as it was known, was the hunting ground for all and sundry, and big cars were very evident especially on Saturdays when well dressed, well-to-do men descended upon the place. It was the thing to have a girl friend on campus…there were two categories of girls—the fast-moving "Mercedes" types and the "clipboards.

The River and the Source (1994)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Margaret Ogola (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.