Lola Shoneyin Quotes

When a plan does not go right, you plot again. One day you will succeed. One day you will be able to damage the person who hurts you so completely that they will never be able to recover.

Men are nothing. They are fools. The penis between their legs is all they are useful for. And even then, if not that women needed their seed for children, it would be better to sit on a finger of green plantain. Listen to my words. Only a foolish woman leans heavily on a man’s promises.

The world has no patience for spinsters. It spits them out.

The world has no patience for spinsters. It spits them out

My daughters were born with eyes in their stomachs so they are quick to digest all that they see.

Baba Segi only comes to deposit his seed in my womb. He doesn’t smile or tickle me. He doesn’t make jokes about my youth; he just rams me into the mattress…

My fingers liked the feel of money. My eye liked to see the piles of money swell. I worshipped money.

Once you crash the idea of normal in your mind, all impossibilities become possible.

Don't think I can't see the challenges ahead of me. People will say I am a secondhand woman. Men will hurt and ridicule me but I won't let them hold me back. I will remain in the land of the living. I am back now and the world is spread before me like an egg cracked open.

A real woman must always do the things she wants to do, and in her own time too. You must never allow yourself to be rushed into doing things you're not ready for.

Husband-sharing is ugly and, one way or another, someone's dreams are crushed when a new wife joins a household.

Your father left me for a beautiful woman. I told him I was pregnant but he didn’t want to hear it. He sliced me like okra and left.

The choices we have to make in this world are hard and bitter. Sometimes we have no choices at all.

Let us not allow the world to see our shame, let us keep our secrets from those who may seek to mock us

The sad truth is, polygamy constitutes a national embarrassment in any country that fantasises about progress and development. Polygamy devalues women and the only person who revels in it is the husband who gets to enjoy variety. You, poor women, will become nothing more than a dish at the buffet.