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Aiwanose Odafen Quotes

born 2022 Nigeria

Aiwanose Odafen is a Nigerian feminist writer. She is best known for her novels, Tomorrow I Become a Woman (2022) and We Were Girls Once (2024).

Nigeria
Feminists

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Publishing completely changes how you look at your writing.

When an idea comes to mind, I have to first write it down and draw a map.

Healing is possible, but it's never linear.

The only way to improve as a writer is to write.

I can spend weeks or months researching alone.

I don’t want to limit myself as a writer, I hope to explore and to push my writing beyond its comfort zone.

I'd seen the trauma of their parents' choices and circumstances affect them significantly.

I always talk about how I Googled "How to Get Published" when my draft was done because it's true.

Never let anyone tell you that you're too ambitious or it's impossible. Trust me when I say, anything is possible.

I had no idea how the industry worked, I just knew I had a story I wanted to tell.

Writing gave me peace. I felt so much clarity while writing that I knew I couldn't stop. It was something I needed to do for my sanity, an outlet of sorts.

I was eager to explore trauma and its different offshoots, how it manifests under multivariate circumstances, but most importantly, I wanted to explore the lottery of birth.

The characters in Tomorrow I Become A Woman were loosely based on real people.

It really angered me just how many women were in similar positions and just how pressured they felt by society to remain in these situations to maintain the status quo.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Aiwanose Odafen (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.