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Top 20 Buchi Emecheta Quotes (2025 Update)

Buchi Emecheta Quote: “Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.”

1. “Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.”

— Buchi Emecheta

Buchi Emecheta Quote: “But who made the law that we should not hope in our daughters? We women subscribe to that law more than anyone. Until we change all this, it is still a man’s world, which women will always help to build.”

2. “But who made the law that we should not hope in our daughters? We women subscribe to that law more than anyone. Until we change all this, it is still a man’s world, which women will always help to build.”

— Buchi Emecheta

Buchi Emecheta Quote: “A hungry man is an angry one.”

3. “A hungry man is an angry one.”

— Buchi Emecheta

Buchi Emecheta Quote: “I work toward the liberation of women, but I’m not feminist. I’m just a woman.”

4. “I work toward the liberation of women, but I’m not feminist. I’m just a woman.”

— Buchi Emecheta

Buchi Emecheta Quote: “In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.”

5. “In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.”

— Buchi Emecheta

Buchi Emecheta Quote: “The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I’d done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn’t read it.”

6. “The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I’d done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn’t read it.”

— Buchi Emecheta

Buchi Emecheta Quote: “Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.”

7. “Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.”

— Buchi Emecheta

Buchi Emecheta Quote: “A man is never ugly”.”

8. “A man is never ugly”.”

— Buchi Emecheta

Buchi Emecheta Quote: “At home in Nigeria, all a mother had to do for a baby was wash and feed him and, if he was fidgety, strap him onto her back and carry on with her work while that baby slept. But in England she had to wash piles and piles of nappies, wheel the child round for sunshine during the day, attend to his feeds as regularly as if one were serving a master, talk to the child, even if he was only a day old! Oh, yes, in England, looking after babies was in itself a full-time job.”

9. “At home in Nigeria, all a mother had to do for a baby was wash and feed him and, if he was fidgety, strap him onto her back and carry on with her work while that baby slept. But in England she had to wash piles and piles of nappies, wheel the child round for sunshine during the day, attend to his feeds as regularly as if one were serving a master, talk to the child, even if he was only a day old! Oh, yes, in England, looking after babies was in itself a full-time job.”

— Buchi Emecheta

Buchi Emecheta Quote: “I am a woman and a woman of Africa. I am a daughter of Nigeria and if she is in shame, I shall stayand mourn with her in shame.”

10. “I am a woman and a woman of Africa. I am a daughter of Nigeria and if she is in shame, I shall stayand mourn with her in shame.”

— Buchi Emecheta

Buchi Emecheta Quote: “The leaves were still on the trees, but were becoming dry, perched like birds ready to fly off.”

11. “The leaves were still on the trees, but were becoming dry, perched like birds ready to fly off.”

— Buchi Emecheta

Buchi Emecheta Quote: “Nnaife did not realise that Dr Meers’s laughter was inspired by that type of wickedness that reduces any man, white or black, intelligent or not, to a new low; lower than the basest of animals, for animals at least respected each other’s feelings, each other’s dignity.”

12. “Nnaife did not realise that Dr Meers’s laughter was inspired by that type of wickedness that reduces any man, white or black, intelligent or not, to a new low; lower than the basest of animals, for animals at least respected each other’s feelings, each other’s dignity.”

— Buchi Emecheta

Buchi Emecheta Quote: “I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger.”

13. “I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger.”

— Buchi Emecheta

Buchi Emecheta Quote: “Yet the more I think about it the more I realise that we women set impossible standards for ourselves. That we make life intolerable for one another. I cannot live up to your standards, senior wife. So I have to set my own.”

14. “Yet the more I think about it the more I realise that we women set impossible standards for ourselves. That we make life intolerable for one another. I cannot live up to your standards, senior wife. So I have to set my own.”

— Buchi Emecheta

Buchi Emecheta Quote: “Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There’s nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world – like we are called the Third World.”

15. “Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There’s nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world – like we are called the Third World.”

— Buchi Emecheta

Buchi Emecheta Quote: “I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.”

16. “I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.”

— Buchi Emecheta

Buchi Emecheta Quote: “I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.”

17. “I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.”

— Buchi Emecheta

Buchi Emecheta Quote: “As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that’s where I recoup my money.”

18. “As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that’s where I recoup my money.”

— Buchi Emecheta

Buchi Emecheta Quote: “Relatives watching wanted and expected me to break down and cry, thereby devaluing my inner sorrow. Maybe if I had not stayed in cold England for eighteen years – England, a country where people cry in their hearts and not with their eyes – I would have done so. Eighteen years is a long time, and like the people I live with, I cried in my heart.”

19. “Relatives watching wanted and expected me to break down and cry, thereby devaluing my inner sorrow. Maybe if I had not stayed in cold England for eighteen years – England, a country where people cry in their hearts and not with their eyes – I would have done so. Eighteen years is a long time, and like the people I live with, I cried in my heart.”

— Buchi Emecheta

Buchi Emecheta Quote: “Living entirely off writing is a precarious existence and money is always short, bit with careful management and planning I found I could keep my head and those of my family, through God’s grace, above water.”

20. “Living entirely off writing is a precarious existence and money is always short, bit with careful management and planning I found I could keep my head and those of my family, through God’s grace, above water.”

— Buchi Emecheta

Buchi Emecheta Quote: “She had gambled with marriage, just like most people, but she had gambled unluckily and had lost.”

21. “She had gambled with marriage, just like most people, but she had gambled unluckily and had lost.”

— Buchi Emecheta

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