There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.

Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.

To choose to write is to reject silence.

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.

Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.

Culture does not make people. People make culture.

You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?' Aunty Ifeka said. 'Your life belongs to you and you alone.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Most people will be a great success if they focus on doing what is important and not what is urgent or pleasant.

To seek solitude like a wild animal. That is my only ambition.

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

I wrote a lot of poetry in the last two years of high school, all about the same girl I was in love with. That was pretty awful. Did you know that in poetry, every line does not need to rhyme?

I think [Ecstasy] was a really good stab. It wasn't my strongest book or my strongest material, but they wanted to make a kinda "rave culture" movie.

If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation.

Simply put: we don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services.

Im not really a tropical paradise kind of person.