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Top 30 Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quotes (2024 Update)

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quote: “Remember, be a good person, not a good girl. Good girls suffer a lot in this life.”

1. “Remember, be a good person, not a good girl. Good girls suffer a lot in this life.”

— Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quote: “The image Miisi had constructed in Britain of the noble African rooted in his cultural values shunning westernization was a myth. What he returned to were people struggling to survive, who in the process had lost the ability to discern the vivid colours of right and wrong. Anything that gave them a chance to survive was moral.”

2. “The image Miisi had constructed in Britain of the noble African rooted in his cultural values shunning westernization was a myth. What he returned to were people struggling to survive, who in the process had lost the ability to discern the vivid colours of right and wrong. Anything that gave them a chance to survive was moral.”

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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quote: “In the media, an avalanche of negative images of an Africa quickly sinking into anarchy so soon after independence overwhelmed him. Horror stories were broadcast with glee and broke the resolve of so many black activists.”

3. “In the media, an avalanche of negative images of an Africa quickly sinking into anarchy so soon after independence overwhelmed him. Horror stories were broadcast with glee and broke the resolve of so many black activists.”

— Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quote: “Promise me you will pass on the story of the first woman – in whatever form you wish. It was given to me by women in captivity. They lived an awful state of migration, my grandmothers. Telling origin stories was their act of resistance. I only added on a bit here and a bit there. Stories are critical, Kirabo,′ she added thoughtfully. ‘The minute we fall silent, someone will fill the silence for us.”

4. “Promise me you will pass on the story of the first woman – in whatever form you wish. It was given to me by women in captivity. They lived an awful state of migration, my grandmothers. Telling origin stories was their act of resistance. I only added on a bit here and a bit there. Stories are critical, Kirabo,′ she added thoughtfully. ‘The minute we fall silent, someone will fill the silence for us.”

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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quote: “She looked at Sio’s tears and thought How Zungu. You go and hurt someone, and then when it comes to apologising you help yourself to crying as well. She had seen it in films. Man cheats, man confesses to woman, man cries, and the betrayed woman is robbed of her right to tears.”

5. “She looked at Sio’s tears and thought How Zungu. You go and hurt someone, and then when it comes to apologising you help yourself to crying as well. She had seen it in films. Man cheats, man confesses to woman, man cries, and the betrayed woman is robbed of her right to tears.”

— Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quote: “But the Bible says that God created Adam and Eve in his own image.’ ‘If he created them in his own image,’ Nsuuta snapped, ’then afterwards Adam re-created Eve in his own image, one that suited him.”

6. “But the Bible says that God created Adam and Eve in his own image.’ ‘If he created them in his own image,’ Nsuuta snapped, ’then afterwards Adam re-created Eve in his own image, one that suited him.”

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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quote: “Nsuuta, every woman resists. Often it is private. Most of our resistance is so everyday that women don’t think twice about it. It is life. Even the worst of us, like Aunt YA, who massage the male ego with “Allow men to be men” are not really shrinking but managing their men.”

7. “Nsuuta, every woman resists. Often it is private. Most of our resistance is so everyday that women don’t think twice about it. It is life. Even the worst of us, like Aunt YA, who massage the male ego with “Allow men to be men” are not really shrinking but managing their men.”

— Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quote: “Like a car accident.’ Tom’s wife’s voice. ‘I made it clear right from the start; I’m not bringing up children who are not mine, full stop. Look at Mother. Every time Father took a walk, he came back with a child. Mother reared them all. But what has she gained beside ingratitude? Me, I’m not. Besides, you accept one child today, tomorrow he brings another. Not me. It is me, my children, full stop.”

8. “Like a car accident.’ Tom’s wife’s voice. ‘I made it clear right from the start; I’m not bringing up children who are not mine, full stop. Look at Mother. Every time Father took a walk, he came back with a child. Mother reared them all. But what has she gained beside ingratitude? Me, I’m not. Besides, you accept one child today, tomorrow he brings another. Not me. It is me, my children, full stop.”

— Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quote: “The mind was a curse: its ability to go back in time to regret and hop into the future to hope and worry was not a blessing.”

9. “The mind was a curse: its ability to go back in time to regret and hop into the future to hope and worry was not a blessing.”

— Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quote: “A guy takes a girl out, spends his transport money on her and walks miles and miles back home. Then, after all of that, she dumps him. You know what some guys believe?’ Kirabo shook her head. ‘That women pretend, that some perform inferiority to give us a false sense of superiority.”

10. “A guy takes a girl out, spends his transport money on her and walks miles and miles back home. Then, after all of that, she dumps him. You know what some guys believe?’ Kirabo shook her head. ‘That women pretend, that some perform inferiority to give us a false sense of superiority.”

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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quote: “Nothing takes the sting out of a woman like marriage. And when children arrive, the window closes. Wife, mother, age, and role model – the “respect” that comes with these roles is the water they pour on your fire.”

11. “Nothing takes the sting out of a woman like marriage. And when children arrive, the window closes. Wife, mother, age, and role model – the “respect” that comes with these roles is the water they pour on your fire.”

— Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quote: “And did all the women shrink?’ Kirabo steered Nsuuta away from Grandmother. ‘With that kind of perversion, who would not shrink? Who would want to be huge, or loud, or brave, or any of the other characteristics men claim to be male? We hunched, lowered our eyes, voices, acted feeble, helpless. Even being clever became unattractive. Soon, being shrunken became feminine. Then it became beautiful and women aspired to it. That was when we began to persecute our original state out of ourselves.”

12. “And did all the women shrink?’ Kirabo steered Nsuuta away from Grandmother. ‘With that kind of perversion, who would not shrink? Who would want to be huge, or loud, or brave, or any of the other characteristics men claim to be male? We hunched, lowered our eyes, voices, acted feeble, helpless. Even being clever became unattractive. Soon, being shrunken became feminine. Then it became beautiful and women aspired to it. That was when we began to persecute our original state out of ourselves.”

— Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quote: “Parents are designed to make us feel let down at some point, especially as we get older. That way we promise ourselves to be better parents.”

13. “Parents are designed to make us feel let down at some point, especially as we get older. That way we promise ourselves to be better parents.”

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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quote: “Once we shrunk, men had to look after us, and it was not long before they started to own us. Fathers sold daughters; husbands bought wives. Once we became a commodity, men could do whatever they wished with us. Even now our bodies do not belong to us. That is why when they need it, they will grab it. Things were so bad in some cultures, women had to be hidden away to protect them, in separate spaces where no men were allowed. Soon, they had to be spoken for by men.”

14. “Once we shrunk, men had to look after us, and it was not long before they started to own us. Fathers sold daughters; husbands bought wives. Once we became a commodity, men could do whatever they wished with us. Even now our bodies do not belong to us. That is why when they need it, they will grab it. Things were so bad in some cultures, women had to be hidden away to protect them, in separate spaces where no men were allowed. Soon, they had to be spoken for by men.”

— Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quote: “I fight with the boys – they don’t pass the ball to me and I throw them off my grandfather’s pitch. I hate chores, I hate kneeling and I cannot stand babies. Sometimes I feel squeezed inside this body as if there is no space. That is when one of me flies out.”

15. “I fight with the boys – they don’t pass the ball to me and I throw them off my grandfather’s pitch. I hate chores, I hate kneeling and I cannot stand babies. Sometimes I feel squeezed inside this body as if there is no space. That is when one of me flies out.”

— Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quote: “She could not bear to look at the coffin because the tree whose timber had made it was once a seedling with tender leaves and baby branches; then it had grown, Tom unaware.”

16. “She could not bear to look at the coffin because the tree whose timber had made it was once a seedling with tender leaves and baby branches; then it had grown, Tom unaware.”

— Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quote: “Their attitude was If you don’t know how to pleasure your men, step out of the way.”

17. “Their attitude was If you don’t know how to pleasure your men, step out of the way.”

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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quote: “Kirabo’ – Gayi’s voice was soft – ’you cannot sit like men. Always kneel. You will not offend anyone that way.”

18. “Kirabo’ – Gayi’s voice was soft – ’you cannot sit like men. Always kneel. You will not offend anyone that way.”

— Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quote: “When women bite themselves because they are powerless.”

19. “When women bite themselves because they are powerless.”

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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quote: “Children do absolutely nothing on their arrival that warrants presents every year. If anything, they should give presents to their mothers, who come close to death.”

20. “Children do absolutely nothing on their arrival that warrants presents every year. If anything, they should give presents to their mothers, who come close to death.”

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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quote: “Maybe storytelling kills the pain, maybe they got tired of being in pain.”

21. “Maybe storytelling kills the pain, maybe they got tired of being in pain.”

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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quote: “Often, what women do is a reaction. We react like powerless people. Remember kweluma?”

22. “Often, what women do is a reaction. We react like powerless people. Remember kweluma?”

— Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quote: “Stories are critical, Kirabo. The minute we fall silent, someone will fill the silence for us.”

23. “Stories are critical, Kirabo. The minute we fall silent, someone will fill the silence for us.”

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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quote: “Like life – you don’t remember when you were born. Or the sky – sometimes dark clouds came, sometimes it rained, but the next moment the sun burst through and the sky was limitless.”

24. “Like life – you don’t remember when you were born. Or the sky – sometimes dark clouds came, sometimes it rained, but the next moment the sun burst through and the sky was limitless.”

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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quote: “It means he’s read a lot of books.’ ‘Listen to that, a doctor of books! What use is that to this village?”

25. “It means he’s read a lot of books.’ ‘Listen to that, a doctor of books! What use is that to this village?”

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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quote: “But then again,’ she sighed, ’with well-off people, you never know where their privilege first came from. Often someone bled, someone sweated, someone cried or died to make them rich. That is what my father says.”

26. “But then again,’ she sighed, ’with well-off people, you never know where their privilege first came from. Often someone bled, someone sweated, someone cried or died to make them rich. That is what my father says.”

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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quote: “For knowing and refusing to know.”

27. “For knowing and refusing to know.”

— Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quote: “The idea that girls expect a word from a man to make them feel good about themselves is another myth, perhaps to justify men’s bad behaviour.”

28. “The idea that girls expect a word from a man to make them feel good about themselves is another myth, perhaps to justify men’s bad behaviour.”

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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quote: “No matter how much a husband loves you, Kirabo, you must buy your own land and build your own house – in case. Most women do it on the stealth, but I say let him know you are doing it, so he knows you have an alternative to his home.”

29. “No matter how much a husband loves you, Kirabo, you must buy your own land and build your own house – in case. Most women do it on the stealth, but I say let him know you are doing it, so he knows you have an alternative to his home.”

— Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quote: “Unlike Giibwa’s parents, who did not monitor her, Grandmother had kept Kirabo close to her elbow for the past year. Whenever Kirabo left the house to go anywhere, she had to be in the company of other family members. She was at that perilous age where if a girl talked to a boy, grown-ups panicked: ‘Eh, eeeh, that girl does not fear men.’ Thus, girls performed outrage when a boy spoke to them.”

30. “Unlike Giibwa’s parents, who did not monitor her, Grandmother had kept Kirabo close to her elbow for the past year. Whenever Kirabo left the house to go anywhere, she had to be in the company of other family members. She was at that perilous age where if a girl talked to a boy, grown-ups panicked: ‘Eh, eeeh, that girl does not fear men.’ Thus, girls performed outrage when a boy spoke to them.”

— Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Quote: “To city people, if you did not wear shoes and changed clothes twice a day, you were poor. But in the rural, that was silly. Wearing a different dress every day meant doing a lot of laundry on Saturday, which meant fetching a lot of water.”

31. “To city people, if you did not wear shoes and changed clothes twice a day, you were poor. But in the rural, that was silly. Wearing a different dress every day meant doing a lot of laundry on Saturday, which meant fetching a lot of water.”

— Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

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