Because I am female, I’m expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
When I'm in a good mood I like to cook. But I don't like saying it in public because I find myself… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Isn't it odd that in most societies in the world today, women generally cannot propose marriage? Marriage is such a major step… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“The knowledge of cooking does not come pre-installed in a vagina. ... If we stopped conditioning women to see marriage as a… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“A husband is not a headmaster. A wife is not a schoolgirl. Permission and being allowed, when used one-sidedly – and they… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“It was not as if he did not know what living in Lagos could do to a woman married to a young… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Never speak of marriage as an achievement. Find ways to make clear to her that marriage is not an achievement, nor is… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“He had first been excited by Facebook, ghosts of old friends suddenly morphing to life with wives and husbands and children, and… — 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
“Philip May is known in politics as a man who has taken a back seat and allowed his wife, Theresa, to shine.”… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Allow” is a troubling word. “Allow” is about power. You will often hear members of the Nigerian chapter of the Society of… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“I prefer Ms. because it is similar to Mr. A man is Mr. whether married or not, a woman is Ms. whether… — 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
“Ma? I think you have the spirit of husband-repelling. You are too hard, ma, you will not find a husband. But my… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“We also need to question the idea of marriage as a prize to women, because that is the basis of these absurd… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I don't believe that art and politics or social issues must be separated. In writing about marriage, for example, money can be… — 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
