Ebele Ejiofor

“You forget that I have a heart, a mind, that I am not an object to be passed from hand to hand. You don’t know what marriage means to me: it is an act of faith and love, the total surrender of oneself to the person one has chosen and who has chosen you.”
― Mariama Bâ, So Long a Letter

“In a word, a man's success depends on feminine support.”
― Mariama Bâ, So Long a Letter

“She had gambled with marriage, just like most people, but she had gambled unluckily and had lost.”
― Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen

“But I was not a mouse. In the fields where I walked, I was much more interested in the actions of the hawks.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Marriage of Opposites