Feminism Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“For me, feminism is always contextual.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Feminism and Femininity are not mutually exclusive.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“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

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

“Don't think that raising her feminist means forcing her to reject femininity. Feminism and femininity are not exclusive.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“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

“Make dressing a question of taste and attractiveness instead of a question of morality.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

“The second tool is a question: Can you reverse X and get the same results? ... If the answer is yes, then…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“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

This idea of feminism as a party to which only a select few people get to come - this is why so…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“- Why should we be feminists? Why not egalitarians? - "Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“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

“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

“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

Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

For me, feminism is a movement for which the end goal is to make itself no longer needed.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“If you are a woman, you are not supposed to express anger, because it is threatening.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“There must be more than male benevolence as the basis for a woman's well-being.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“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

“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