To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are. If we have sons, we don't mind… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Teach her to stand up for what is hers. If another child takes her toy without her permission, ask her to take… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“I realized that if I ever have children, I don't want them to have American childhoods. I don't want them to say… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered 'an important novel', but when I first… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“What if the parents, from the beginning, taught both children to cook Indomie? Cooking, by the way, is a useful and practical… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
What I find problematic is the suggestion that when, say, Madonna adopts an African child, she is saving Africa. It's not that… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Just give her one, Ifemelu thought. To overwhelm a child of four with choices, to lay on her the burden of making… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I think it's possible to have been a happy child, as I was, and still question and push back with regard to… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“I know this remarkable Nigerian woman, Angela, a single mother who was raising her child in the United States; her child did… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“It puzzled him that she did not mourn all the things she could have been. Was it a quality inherent in women,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“But if we start raising children differently, then in fifty years, in a hundred years, boys will no longer have the pressure… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that... Marlene Sanders... once gave this piece of advice to a younger journalist:… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Please do not ever put this pressure on your daughter. We teach girls to be likeable, to be nice, to be false.… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
He was already looking at their relationship through the lens of the past tense. It puzzled her, the ability of romantic love… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Nobody just leaves medical school, especially given it's fiercely competitive to get in. But I had a sister who was a doctor,… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
