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Mariama Bâ, So Long a Letter pp.48-95 - Coggle Diagram
Mariama Bâ, So Long a Letter pp.48-95
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Education
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"We have a right, just as you have, to education, which we ought to be able to pursue to the furthest limits of our intellectual capacities. We have a right to equal well-paid employment, to equal opportunities."(63)
motherhood/love
"What a thrilling adventure it is to turn a baby into a healthy man. But how many mothers are able to accomplish that feat?" (50)
"I shed tears of joy and sadness together: joy in being loved by my children, the sadness of a mother who does not have the means to change the course of events" (56)
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" is not that the presence of my young children poses a problem; he could not have filled the role of the father who had abandoned them." (69)
Marriage
"Aggression and condescension in a woman arouse contempt and hatred for her husband. If she is gracious, even without appealing to any ideology, she can summon support for any action. In a word, a man's success depends on feminine support." (59)
"Remember. For five years you deprived my mother and her twelve children of their breadwinner. Remember. My mother has suffered a great deal." (74)
"People talked of bewitchment. With determination, friends begged me to react me to react: 'You are letting someone else pluck the fruits of your labour.'" (51)
"I also know that marriage is never smooth. It reflects differences in character and capacity for feeling. In one couple the man may be the victim of a fickle woman or of a woman shut up in her own preoccupations who rejects all dialogue and quashes all moves towards tenderness." (57)
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Labor
"Those women we call 'house'-wives deserve praise. The domestic work they carry out, and which is not paid for in hard cash, is essential to the home." (66)
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Independence
"I overcame my shyness at going alone to cinemas; I would take a seat with less and less embarrassment as the months went by." (54)
"My voice has known thirty years of silence, thirty years of harassment. It bursts out, violent, sometimes sarcastic, sometimes contemptuous." (60)
"Even though I understand your stand, even though I respect the choice of liberated women, I have never conceived of happiness outside of marriage." (58)