"Now all I must do is to try and prepare myself for another pregnancy, for it seems this is the reason why I was creat…"

"A Master’s here. A Doctorate there. . . . That was the other thing about the revolution."

"She hurried home and into the bathroom where she vomited – and cried and cried and vomited for what seemed to her to …"

"They used to tell her that they found the thought of returning home frightening. They would be frustrated."

"Even that was not the whole story. Suddenly, it seemed as if all the girls and women she knew and remembered as havin…"

"What was more, if they really wanted to see a revolution, why didn’t they work constructively in other ways for it?"

"one did not really go to school to learn about Africa."

"She had always known that in her society men and women had had more important things to do than fight each other in t…"

"if we honestly tackled the problems facing us, we wouldn’t have the time to worry about such trifles as wigs"

"Kodjo Fi was a selfish and bullying man, whom no decent woman ought to have married. He got on marvellously with his …"