Quotes by Buchi Emecheta

Buchi Emecheta

Nigerian-born British novelist

Lived from: 1944 - 2017

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagNigeria

Born: 21 july 1944 Died: 25 january 2017

  • I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.
  • 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.

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  • As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.
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  • 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.
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  • Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.
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  • 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.
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  • I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.
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  • I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.
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  • I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story.
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  • I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.
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  • In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.
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  • 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.
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What are the most famous quotes from Buchi Emecheta?

The two most famous quotes from Buchi Emecheta are:

  • "As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money."
  • "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."

When did Buchi Emecheta live?

Buchi Emecheta was born in 1944 and died in the year 2017.