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Fumilayo Ransome Quotes

1900–1978 Nigeria

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (1900–1978) was born in Abeokuta, in present-day Ogun State, Nigeria. She was one of the first women to attend Abeokuta Grammar School in 1914, where she would go on to teach.

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Random Fumilayo Ransome quote

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To be a good politician you must be wise like a snake, calm like a dove and kind like an angel.

How beautiful would it be if our women could have the same opportunity as men.

Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a water-cooler. It can become an intrinsic part of their dialogue.

The true position of Nigerian women had to be judged from the women who carried babies on their backs and farmed from sunrise to sunset, not women who used tea, sugar, and flour for breakfast.

As for the charges against me, I am unconcerned. I am beyond their timid lying morality and so I am beyond caring.

Attribution

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