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
“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
“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
“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
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
For me, feminism is a movement for which the end goal is to make itself no longer needed. — 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
“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
“There must be more than male benevolence as the basis for a woman's well-being.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Try not to use words like “misogyny” and “patriarchy” too often with Chizalum. We feminists can sometimes be too jargony, and jargon… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 seem them as relational rather than as individual… — 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
“These Nigerians have been raised to think of women as inherently guilty. And they have been raised to expect so little of… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“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
“- 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
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
Culture does not make people - people make culture. So if it is in fact true that the full humanity of women… — 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
“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
