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"She had gambled with marriage, just like most people, but she had gambled unluckily and had lost."
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Buchi EmechetaThe first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, — 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."
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Buchi Emecheta
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Buchi Emecheta was a Nigerian writer, whose work includes novels, plays, autobiography, and children's books. She was best known for her 1974 novel, Second Class Citizen. Her other novels include The Bride Price (1976), The Slave Girl (1977), and The Joys of Motherhood (1979). Emecheta has been characterized as "the first successful black woman novelist living in Britain after 1948".
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"There were men who would go about raping young virgins of thirteen and fourteen, and still expect the women they married to be as chaste as flower buds."
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"I work toward the liberation of women but Im not a feminist. Im just a woman."
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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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"Living entirely off writing is a precarious existence and money is always short, bit with careful management and planning I found I could keep my head and those of my family, through Gods grace, above water."
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"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."
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