Buchi Emecheta

Quotes

1. God, when will you create a woman who will be fulfilled in herself, a full human being, not anybody’s appendage? she prayed desperately.

2. 

   I cannot live up to your standards.

3. 

   Her children were going to be different. They were all going to be black, they were going to enjoy being black, be proud of being black, a black of a different breed.

4. 

   Nnu Ego was like those not-so well-informed Christians who,promised the Kingdom of Heaven,believed that it was literally just round the corner and that Jesus Christ was coming on the very morrow. Many of them would hardly contribute anything ton this world,reasoning, "What is the use? Christ will come soon" They became so insulated in their beliefs that not only would they have little to do with ordinary sinners,people going about their daily work, they even pitied them and in many cases looked down on them because the Kingdom of God was not for the likes of them. Maybe this was a protective mechanism devised to save them from realities too painful to accept.

5. 

   The concept of whiteness could cover a multitude of sins.

6. 

   The leaves were still on the trees but were becoming dry, perched like birds ready to fly off.

7. 

   Dreams soon assume substance

8. 

   In Ibuza sons help their father more than they help their mother. A mother's joy is only in the name. She worries over them, looks after them when they are small; but in the actual help on the farm, the upholding of the family name, all belong to the father.

9. 

   God, when will you create a woman who will be fulfilled in herself, a full human being, not anybody's appendage? ... when will I be free?

10. 

    The more I think about it, the more I realize that we, women, set impossible models for ourselves. That we make life intolerable for each other. I can't live up to our role models, older wife. That’s why I need to create my own.

11. 

    This old friend of Adah's paid for the taxi that took her home from Camden Town because he thought she was still with her husband.

12. 

    Typical Igbo psychology; men never do wrong, only the women; they have to beg for forgiveness, because they are bought, paid for and must remain like that, silent, obedient slaves.