Important Quotations Explained
1. Is Esi too an African woman? She not only is, but there are plenty
of them around these days. . . these days. . . these days.
2. But Opokuya wasn't having any of her self-pity. So she countered
rather heavily. “Why is life so hard on the non-professional African woman?
Eh? Esi, isn't life even harder for the poor rural and urban African
woman?”
3. Esi was thinking that the whole thing sounded so absolutely
lunatic and so âcontemporary African' that she would save her sanity
probably by not trying to understand it. The only choice left to her was to
try and enter into the spirit of it.
4. From the inner room Esi heard them and pain filled her chest. She
could never be as close to her mother as her mother was to her grandmother.
Never, never, never. And she knew why.
5. Ali phoned regularly to announce his imminent departures. He
phoned from the different cities and towns inside and outside the country to
which he traveled. He phoned to report his arrivals. In between his travels,
he phoned regularly when the telephone lines permitted. He and Esi always
had good telephone conversations.
