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Wole Soyinka on Women

b. 1934

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This market is my roost. When I come among the women I am a chicken with a hundred mothers.

Death and the King's Horseman (1975)

"I have a particular aversion to being mauled by women

A Dance of the Forests (1960)

No! I do not envy him!
Just one woman for me!

The Lion and the Jewel (1959)

But then I am a woman. I have a woman’s longings and weaknesses.

What I boast is known in Lagos, that city
Of magic, in Badagry where Saro women bathe
In gold, even in smaller towns less than
Twelve miles from here...

The Lion and the Jewel (1959)

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