Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.
— Buchi Emecheta
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God, when will you create a woman who will be fulfilled in herself, a full human being, not anybody’s appendage? she prayed desperately.
The Joys of Motherhood (1979)
Yet that intelligent, enterprising, noble-hearted man was a chattel! Liable, by the laws of a country that calls itself civilized, to be sold with horses and pigs!
The Slave Girl (1977)
Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women. Superadded to the burden common to all, they have wrongs, and sufferings, and mortifications peculiarly their own.
The Slave Girl (1977)
Every woman should be free to live the life she chooses.
The Joys of Motherhood (1979)
Anything imported was considered to be much better than their own old ways.
The Bride Price (1976)
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