“No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.”

— Chinua Achebe , book Things Fall Apart

Source: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 7 (p. 52)

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Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic 1930–2013

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