As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.

Women should not be suppressed because they are women, because they have children and because of men. Then I am a feminist. But when it comes to the African concept, for the moment, I say 'feminist plus'. We have so many other problems.

As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

A hungry man is an angry one.

But who made the law that we should not hope in our daughters? We women subscribe to that law more than anyone. Until we change all this, it is still a man's world, which women will always help to build.

I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.