Buchi Emecheta famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Buchi Emecheta

#Daughter #Men #Law
Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.
-- Buchi Emecheta

#Guilty Conscience #Guilty #Conscience
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.
-- Buchi Emecheta

#Daughter #Shame #Mourn
As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.
-- Buchi Emecheta

#Book #Rights #Different
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.
-- Buchi Emecheta

#Believe #Writing #Views
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.
-- Buchi Emecheta

#Children #Writing #Typewriters
A hungry man is an angry one.
-- Buchi Emecheta

#Men #Hungry #Angry
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.
-- Buchi Emecheta

#Hate #Eye #Writing
In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.
-- Buchi Emecheta

#People #Black #Today
Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.
-- Buchi Emecheta

#Black #World #Way
I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.
-- Buchi Emecheta

#World #Thirds
I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.
-- Buchi Emecheta

#Years #Two #Teens
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.
-- Buchi Emecheta

#Husband #Book #Typical
I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.
-- Buchi Emecheta

#Feminist #Liberation

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