Buchi Emecheta Quotes

• Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.

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  Black, World, Way

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• I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

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  Feminist, Liberation

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• But who made the law that we should not hope in our daughters? We women subscribe to that law more than anyone. Until we change all this, it is still a man's world, which women will always help to build.

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  Hija, Hombres, Ley

  Buchi Emecheta (1994). “The Joys of Motherhood”, p.187, Heinemann

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• I am a woman and a woman of Africa. I am a daughter of Nigeria and if she is in shame, I shall stayand mourn with her in shame.

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  Daughter, Shame, Mourn

  1982 Destination Biafra.

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• Pocas cosas son tan malas como la mala conciencia.

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  Guilty Conscience, Guilty, Conscience

  Buchi Emecheta (1994). “The Joys of Motherhood”, p.165, Heinemann

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• Women should not be suppressed because they are women, because they have children and because of men. Then I am a feminist. But when it comes to the African concept, for the moment, I say 'feminist plus'. We have so many other problems.

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  Children, Men, Feminist

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• I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.

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  Believe, Writing, Views

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• I'm not just a feminist - I'm a feminist plus.

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  Feminist, Plus

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• I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.

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  World, Thirds, Developing

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• A hungry man is an angry one.

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  Inspirational, Men, Hungry

  Buchi Emecheta (1994). “The Joys of Motherhood”, p.135, Heinemann

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• El primer libro que escribí fue El precio de la novia, que era un libro romántico, pero mi marido quemó el libro cuando lo vio. Yo era la típica mujer africana, lo había hecho en privado, quería que él lo viera, que lo aprobara y él dijo que no lo leería.

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  Husband, Book, Typical

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• Fui una amenaza para muchas mujeres y para muchos hombres. Las mujeres no pueden perdonarme si sigo soltero y además tengo una familia. Pero yo también tengo una familia y la estoy criando. Muchas mujeres sólo se quedan en sus matrimonios por los niños, así que verme solo les molesta.

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  Children, Men, Forgive Me

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• Cuando llegué a Inglaterra no era lo que es ahora, entonces los negros eran muy poco fuertes. Tuve un choque personal porque Inglaterra no era lo que yo esperaba... donde la gente vivía como Jane Austen.

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  Strong, People, Black

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• Men blackmailing you as a woman leads you to trivialise sex and say 'it's not important, what is important is myself as a person, no one owns me because of sex.'

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  Sex, Men, Important

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• Siendo una mujer escritora, me engañaría a mí misma si dijera que escribo completamente a través del ojo de un hombre. No hay nada malo en ello, pero eso no me convierte en una escritora feminista. Odio esa denominación. La etiqueta es del mundo occidental, como si nos llamaran del Tercer Mundo.

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  Odio, Escritura, Ojo

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• I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger.

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  Children, Writing, Typewriters

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• In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

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  People, Black, Prejudice

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• As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

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  Libro, Derechos, Diferente

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• I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.

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  Years, Two, Teens

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