My Daughter Has Opened Up A New Phase Of Experience To Feed My Fiction – Chimamanda Adichie

Popular writer, Chimamanda Adichie has come out to open up about motherhood and how it affects women.

She recently had her while speaking during an interview on BBC’s Woman’s Hour, and fans have been reacting.

According to her, even if becoming a mother is a glorious gift, every woman must know that it comes at a very heavy cost.

Adichie added that she could have written two novels if she wasn’t busy giving birth to her daughter, a baby girl who eventually opened her up to a new phase of experience and awareness that could feed her fiction.

Her words, “Becoming a mother is a glorious gift but it comes at a cost and I think it’s important to acknowledge that, right?

There is something that we… and I will say ‘lose’.

I felt that I could probably have written two novels had I not had my child. But I think that having her also sort of opened me up to this new, almost a new phase of experience and awareness that I’m hoping will feed my fiction.

Even before I had her, when I was pregnant, I felt as though my brain had been wrapped in gauze. So, my brain didn’t work for a long time. And just more creatively, I think I am making my way back because I am working on a novel finally. But I just wasn’t able to get into my fictional space for a long time.”

WOW.