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Quotes from Marriage Is a Private Affair — Chinua Achebe

1930–2013 Nigeria

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What one looks for in a wife are a good character and a Christian background.

Marriage Is a Private Affair (1952)

In the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the city it had always seemed to her something of a joke that a person’s tribe could determine who he married.

Marriage Is a Private Affair (1952)

‘I can’t—we must—I mean it is impossible for me to marry Nweke’s daughter.’ ‘Impossible. Why?’ asked his father. ‘I don’t love her.’ ‘Nobody said you did. Why should you?’

Marriage Is a Private Affair (1952)

Nnaemeka, for his own part, was very deeply affected by his father’s grief. But he kept hoping that it would pass away. If it had occurred to him that never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue, he might have been less optimistic.

Marriage Is a Private Affair (1952)

that women supply with success to recapture their husbands’ straying affection

Marriage Is a Private Affair (1952)

obstinately ahead of his more superstitious neighbors in these matters

Marriage Is a Private Affair (1952)

it is impossible for [him] to marry Nweke’s daughter

Marriage Is a Private Affair (1952)

found a girl who will suit [him] admirably

Marriage Is a Private Affair (1952)

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