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Buchi Emecheta was a Nigerian-British novelist known for her novels that reflect on women's experiences and social issues. Her works often explore themes of race, gender, and class, and have been widely appreciated by readers.

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Famous Buchi Emecheta Quotes

“Enquanto voltava para o quarto, ocorreu a Nnu Ego que ela uma prisioneira: aprisionada pelo amor por seus filhos, aprisionada pelo papel de esposa mais velha. Dela, não se esperava nem que pedisse mais dinheiro para a família, essa atitude seria considerada inferior ao padrão esperado de uma mulher em sua posição. Não era justa, ela achava, o modo como os espertos dos homens usavam o sentido de responsabilidade de uma mulher para escravisá-la na prática.”

Maternidade

Book:The Joys of Motherhood

Source: The Joys of Motherhood

“Alguns pais, especialmente os que têm muitos filhos de diferentes esposas podem rejeitar um mau filho, um amo pode rejeitar um criado perverso, uma esposa pode chegar ao ponto de abandonar um mau marido, mas uma mãe nunca, nunca pode rejeitar seu filho. Se ele for condenado, ela será condenada ao lado dele.”

Maternidade

Book:The Joys of Motherhood

Source: The Joys of Motherhood

“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.”

Ifs Daughter Shame Mourn Nigeria

Author:Buchi Emecheta

“Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.”

Conscience Guilty Guilty Conscience

Book:The Joys of Motherhood

Source: The Joys of Motherhood

“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.”

Men World Should Made Stills Helping Law Daughter Our Daughter

Book:The Joys of Motherhood

Source: The Joys of Motherhood

“When I came to England it wasn't what it is now, then the black people were very rarely strong. I had a personal shock because England wasn't what I expected it to be... where people lived like Jane Austen.”

People Strong Black England Expected Shock Black People Jane Austen

Author:Buchi Emecheta

“I was a threat to a lot of women and to a lot of men. The women cannot forgive me if I remain single and also have a family. But I have a family as well and am raising them. A lot of women only stay in their marriages because of the children so seeing me on my own annoys them.”

Ifs Men Wells Children My Own Seeing Forgiving Threat Annoying Forgive Me

Author:Buchi Emecheta

“I'm not just a feminist - I'm a feminist plus.”

Feminist Plus

Author:Buchi Emecheta

“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.”

Men Should Children Moments Problem Concepts Feminist Plus

Author:Buchi Emecheta

“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.'”

Men Persons Important Sex

Author:Buchi Emecheta

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

Feminist Liberation

Author:Buchi Emecheta

“The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.”

Firsts Looks Said Book Done Wanted Saws Husband My Husband Typical Brides African Women Romantic Book

Author:Buchi Emecheta

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

Years Two Young England Two Years Teens Brides

Author:Buchi Emecheta

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

World Thirds Developing Third World

Author:Buchi Emecheta

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

World Way Should Black Black Women

Author:Buchi Emecheta

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

People Problem Today Black Deals Novel Prejudice Britain Black People

Author:Buchi Emecheta

“Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.”

Ifs Men World Writing Doe Said Would Be Eye Hate Names Thirds I Hate Western Feminist Deceiving Being A Woman Third World Tag Western World Through The Eyes

Author:Buchi Emecheta

“A hungry man is an angry one.”

Men Inspirational Angry Hungry Hungry Man

Book:The Joys of Motherhood

Source: The Joys of Motherhood

“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.”

Writing Children Stills Values Next Rooms Pops Kitchen Typewriters Messing Up

Author:Buchi Emecheta

“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.”

People Writing Believe Persons Important Whole Speak I Believe Views Roles Reader Communicators Whole Picture

Author:Buchi Emecheta

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

Book Different Rights Sells Publishers

Author:Buchi Emecheta

About the Author

Born: August 14, 1944
Died: January 25, 2017
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 21

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