“Being a feminist is like being pregnant. You either are or you are not. You either believe in the full equality of… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“There must be more than male benevolence as the basis for a woman’s well-being. Feminism Lite uses the language of “allowing.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Tell Chizalum that women actually don't need to be championed and revered; they just need to be treated as equal human beings.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“The late Kenyan Nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said, the higher you go, the fewer… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Make dressing a question of taste and attractiveness instead of a question of morality.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Teach her to question men who can have empathy for women only if they see them as relational rather than as individual… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“feminism. If anything, it makes us see the extent of the problem, the successful reach of patriarchy. It shows us, too, that… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Does she have a domestic side? Questions we do not ask of powerful men, which shows that our discomfort is not with… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
This idea of feminism as a party to which only a select few people get to come - this is why so… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“We have a world full of women who are unable to exhale fully because they have for so long been conditioned to… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I think the history of western feminism is one that is fraught with racism, and I think it's important to acknowledge that… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“That a woman claims not to be feminist does not diminish the necessity of feminism. If anything, it makes us see the… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“The second tool is a question: Can you reverse X and get the same results? ... If the answer is yes, then… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?"… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“But here is a sad truth: Our world is full of men and women who do not like powerful women. We have… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“in Feminism Lite, that men are naturally superior but should be expected to ‘treat women well’. No. No. No. There must be… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Some people ask, 'Why the word 'feminist'? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?'… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“But here is a sad truth: Our world is full of men and women who do not like powerful women. We have… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Teach her to question men who can have empathy for women only if they seem them as relational rather than as individual… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Men's grooming is never suspect in the way women's grooming is--a well-dressed man does not worry that, because he is dressed well,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Some people ask: “Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?”… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Because human beings lived then in a world in which physical strength was the most important attribute for survival; the physically stronger… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much.… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Feminism and femininity are not mutually exclusive. It is misogynistic to suggest that they are. Sadly, women have learned to be ashamed… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“- Why should we be feminists? Why not egalitarians? - "Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Don't think that raising her feminist means forcing her to reject femininity. Feminism and femininity are not exclusive.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“If you are a woman, you are not supposed to express anger, because it is threatening.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“There must be more than male benevolence as the basis for a woman's well-being.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
For me, feminism is a movement for which the end goal is to make itself no longer needed. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“I often wear clothes that men don’t like or don’t “understand.” I wear them because I like them and because I feel… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“What I’ve noticed being here is that many English people are in awe of America but also deeply resent it,” Obinze added. “Perfectly true,”… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
“Because human beings lived then in a world in which physical strength was the most important attribute for survival; the physically stronger person was… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self I once… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
I think white women need to wake up and say, 'Not all women are white,' three times in front of the mirror. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are. If we have sons, we don't mind knowing about… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
“Alexa, and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
“It was not as if he did not know what living in Lagos could do to a woman married to a young and wealthy… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
“They have the kinds of things we can eat.' An unease crept up on Ifemelu. She was comfortable here, and she wished she were… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
“But race is not biology; race is sociology. Race is not genotype; race is phenotype. Race matters because of racism. And racism is absurd… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the West, gender… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share
