“Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellie...” — Simone Schwarz-Bart Quote

“Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall.”

“There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together.”

“Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark.”

“I've got a Moroccan shape, where the weight goes on around the belly and the bum.”

“People think we don't give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that night I felt lower than a snake's belly. The reality is still there.”

“My mother would work 14 hours, and she'd come home, and she'd just get right into cooking... she wanted to make sure my brother, my sister and I had food in our bellies.”