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Friendship between women can resemble love. It has the same possessiveness as love, the same jealousies and lack of restraint. But the complicities of friendship are more durable than those of love, for they are not based on the language of the body.

Maryse Condé

Without love, a woman's heart hardens. It becomes a desolate savanna where only cacti grow.

Maryse Condé

Segu is a garden where cunning grows. Segu is built on treachery. Speak of Segu outside Segu, but do not speak of Segu in Segu.

Maryse Condé

Maryse Condé

Maryse Condé

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Born: February 11, 1934

Died: April 2, 2024 (aged 90)

Bio: Maryse Condé was a French author of historical fiction, best known for her novel Segu. In addition, she was a scholar of Francophone literature and Professor Emerita of French at Columbia University.

Known for:

I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem (1986)
Crossing the Mangrove (1995)
Windward heights (1998)
Le Coeur A Rire Et A Pleurer (1999)

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