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“It is being a woman. Esi, why do you think they took so much trouble with a girl on her wedding day? When we were young we were told that people who were condemned to death were granted any wish on the eve of their execution .., Anyhow, a young woman on her wedding day was something like that. She was made much of, because the whole ceremony was a funeral of the self that could have been.”
— Jul 05, 2026 03:03AM
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Rachel Buteaux
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“It was from my father I first heard the rather famous quotation from Dr. Kwegyir Aggrey: If you educate a man, you educate an individual. If you educate a woman, you educate a nation.”
To Be a Woman: Sisterhood is Global
Ama Ata Aidoo
— Jul 07, 2026 01:10AM
To Be a Woman: Sisterhood is Global
Ama Ata Aidoo
Rachel Buteaux
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“ .., remember a man always gained in stature through any way he chose to associate with a woman. And that included adultery. Especially adultery. Esi, a woman has always been diminished in her association with a man. A good woman was she who quickened the pace of her own destruction. To refuse, as a woman, to be destroyed, was a crime that society spotted very quickly and punished swiftly and severely.”
— Jul 05, 2026 02:53AM
