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“The example of her life was a teaching tool because she showed that she could stand as a woman on her own…be a contributing member of the community.”

— Onyeka Onwenu

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“I was targeted and abused for being an Igbo woman who came to give jobs to and elevate my people while sidelining them.”

“I probably would have been somewhere buying and selling like every other woman who is trying to survive. If I didn’t have education, it would still have been the same thing. I can buy and sell at all levels, considerably.”

“Politics must not be left in the hands of notorious people or the mediocre. We must bring our best into it and no one has a right to complain if one refuses to get into politics, and some other people ventured into it and make laws that will affect your generation yet unborn.”

“Small minds, narrow minds can’t comprehend a great spirit when they see it. When they insist in stereotyping you, even when the evidence is there, look at them carefully, they are lacking some sort of professionalism.”

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