4,370 Quotes About Literature

Men could get anything they wanted from the women who sought refuge with them. Why would they be obliged to marry their women?

After all the education I have had, I am reduced to the lowliest place in the house of my in-laws?

People don't see it that way. It's always the woman who is blamed for not trying hard enough to please her man.

If you think there is some place else where the status of women in society is much improved, you will be sorely disappointed.

I can't single-handedly change what has been happening to women for generations.

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.

Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man’s done and you want him to be a hero at the same time!

The whole history of literary fiction as an evolutionary process may be said to be a gradual probing of deeper and deeper layers of life.