# Quote — Buchi Emecheta, Second-Class Citizen

> She felt eight when she was being directed by her dream, for a younger child would not be capable of so many mischiefs. Thinking back on it all now that she was grown up, she was sorry for her parents. But it was their own fault; they should not have had her in the first place, and that would have saved a lot of people a lot of headaches.”

- Author: [Buchi Emecheta](https://www.leafyquotes.com/buchi-emecheta.md)
- Book: [Second-Class Citizen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/buchi-emecheta/second-class-citizen.md)
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> (Chapter 1, Page 15)

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> Then the thought suddenly struck her. Yes, she would go to school.

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> One might think on this evidence that Africans treated their children badly. But to Adah’s people and to Adah herself, this was not so at all; it was the custom. Children, especially girls, were taught to be very useful very early in life, and this had its advantages. For instance, Adah learned very early to be responsible for herself. Nobody was interested in her for her own sake, only in the money she would fetch, and the housework she could do and Adah, happy at being given this opportunity of survival, did not waste time thinking about its rights or wrongs. She had to survive.”

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