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Flora Nwapa Quotes

1931–1993 Nigeria

Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa (13 January 1931 – 16 October 1993) was a Nigerian author best known as Flora Nwapa She was a Nigerian author who has been called the mother of modern African Literature. She was the forerunner to a generation of African women writers, and the first African woman novelist to be published in the English language in Britain.

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There is no problem in this world that cannot be solved.

They did not see the reason why Adizua should not marry another woman since according to them two men do not live together. To them Efuru was a man, since she could not reproduce.

Efuru told him that she would drown herself in the lake if he did not marry her. Adizua told her he loved her very much and that even the dust she trod on meant something to him.

As Adiewere and Efuru were eating, a troop of children with shining tummies in front of them were seen approaching. "These children are just in time. The way they time themselves is admirable.

What can a woman do? You say everyday. In the end, a woman does something, and even then still you look down on women.

I don’t even accept that I’m a feminist. I accept that I’m an ordinary woman who is writing about what she knows. I try to project the image of women positively.

Feminism was a politics of empowerment that assumed that a woman was a victim. I saw feminism as a politics that had to first position women as victims so that it can then empower them.

I don’t think that I’m a radical feminist,”

We are well, Efuru replied. It is only hunger. It is good that it is only hunger. Good health is what we pray for.

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