"The Joys of Motherhood" Quotes
The Joys of Motherhood follows the life of Nnu Ego as she navigates the challenges and joys of motherhood in colonial Nigeria.
fiction | 224 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The only people who are ever interested in the children are their mothers.
All the time she had spent worrying about her children, who were now all grown up, and there was nothing she could do about it.
When men were in the right mood they were as good as children.
She was a mother, and mothers had to be able to withstand a great deal. She was a woman, and women had to be able to withstand even more.
She had been a mother for so long that she had forgotten she was once a daughter.
Sometimes she felt like she was nothing more than a machine for producing children.
She had no time for herself. She was too busy being a mother.
She had to be strong, for her children's sake.
She was willing to sacrifice everything for her children. They were her joy and her pain.
Motherhood had made her both fierce and fragile.
