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• Proverbs on women and traditional things...

  Posted: April 18, 2009, 5:27 pm by misscaffeineaddict

  I was reading this book, "source of all evil" by Mineke Schipper. It's basically african proverbs and sayings on women. They're really old school, think villages, traditional dances, bear breasts, kola nuts, clitoridectomy, earthenware plates, thatched roofs, co-wives, etc. Etc. Reading the book clearly took me back. Interesting how many of them can still be applied to... well, today.
  Here's some of my favourites...
  
  1. Women and sky cannot be understood (gikuyu, kenya)
  
  2. Pluck the pumpkin, you must take the leaves. (tonga, zambia)
  - no woman is without baggage, be it from past relationships, or pain in your ass relatives.
  
  3. What a girl wants, she'll get an any price (rwanda, rwanda)
  
  4. No girl ever died without being told "turn my way" (rwanda, rwanda)
  - summary, no girl, Lemmi rephrase that, every girl gets hit on by someone. Be it a one-eyed, nasty looking smelly dude with a wierd fashion sense, every girl gets hit on by someone.
  
  5. Better a short penis that sleeping alone (baule, ivory coast)
  - this one's... Self explanatory.
  
  6. Woman is like a shadow. Go to her, she flees. Leave her, she follows you. (luba, zaire : somali, somalia)
  -chicks always want the ones who play hard to get.
  
  7. Women are like gourds; they cannot balance. (gikuyu, kenya)
  - women are unstable.
  
  I'll add more. Again, it's a really good book.

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