Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, Or A Feminist Manifesto In Fifteen Suggestions Quotes

We have a world full of women who are unable to exhale fully because they have for so long been conditioned to fold themselves into shapes to make themselves likeable.

If we don't place the straitjacket of gender roles on young children, we give them space to reach their full potential.

Because when there is true equality, resentment does not exist.

That a woman claims not to be feminist does not diminish the necessity of feminism. If anything, it makes us see the extent of the problem, the successful reach of patriarchy.

There must be more than male benevolence as the basis for a woman's well-being.

Teach her to question men who can have empathy for women only if they see them as relational rather than as individual equal humans.

Make dressing a question of taste and attractiveness instead of a question of morality.

Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that.

A father is as much a verb as a mother.