She, who only a few months previously would have accepted nothing but the best, had by now been conditioned to expect inferior things. She was now le… - Buchi Emecheta

And later he burnt the book and I think by that time this urge to write had become more important to me than he realized, and that was the day I said, ‘I’m going to leave this marriage’ and he said “What for, that stupid book?’ and I said, “I just feel you just burned my child.

The uneducated man has no such choices. Once he has lost his boring job, he feels he's lost his life. That is unfair.

The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I’d done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn’t read.