Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes
A man is likely as a woman to be intelligent, innovative and creative. We have evolved. But our ideas of gender have not evolved very much.
If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over it becomes normal.
I should never call myself a feminist since feminists are women who are unhappy because they cannot find husbands.So I decided to call myself a Happy Feminist.
The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership.
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we ´should' be rather than recognizing how we are.
A book did not qualify as literature unless it had polysyllabic words and incomprehensible passages.
Don’t see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy. What will you do with the misery you have chosen? Will you eat misery?
it would hurt him to know she had felt that way for a while, that her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out.
Ma? I think you have the spirit of husband-repelling. You are too hard, ma, you will not find a husband. But my pastor can destroy that spirit.
femelu could not understand this, her mother’s ability to tell herself stories about her reality that did not even resemble her reality
They never said “I don’t know.” They said, instead, “I’m not sure, ” which did not give any information but still suggested the possibility of knowledge.
...she thought of him as a person who did not have a normal spine, but had instead, a firm reed of goodness.
One day, I will look up and all the people I know will be dead or abroad.
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.
The best thing about America is that it gives you space. I like that. I like that you buy into the dream, it's a lie but you buy into it and that's all that matters.
She felt a sense that things were in order, the way they were meant to be, and that even if they tumbled down once in a while, in the end they would come back together again.
Maybe it’s time to just scrap the word “racist.” Find something new. Like Racial Disorder Syndrome. And we could have different categories for sufferers of this syndrome: mild, medium, and acute.
We never actively remember death, ' Odenigbo said. The reason we live as we do is because we do not remember that we will die. We will all die.
he lived in London indeed but invisibly, his existence like an erased pencil sketch
White writers can be blunt about race and get all activist because their anger isn’t threatening
It doesn't have to be dreads. You can wear an Afro, or braids like you used to. There's a lot you can do with natural hair
He thought about the next time he would laugh with her and then the next. He found himself often thinking about the future, even before the present was over.
Try more strategy and less force. Passion never wins any game, never mind what they say.” He said something similar now: “Excuses don’t win a game. You should try strategy.
There's something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You've never even accepted that the man was ugly.
Soon, " he said in his letter. They said "soon" to each other often, and "soon" gave their plan the weight of something real.
Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.