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
Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
At some point I was a HappyAfricanFeminist who does not hate men. And who likes lip gloss and who wears high heels… — 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
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
I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
There's something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You've never even… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
About 52% of the world's population is female. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
The idea that sex is something a woman gives a man, and she loses something when she does that, which again for… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Girls are socialised in ways that are harmful to their sense of self - to reduce themselves, to cater to the egos… — 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
You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?' Aunty Ifeka said. 'Your life belongs… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a… — 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
Some men feel threatened by the idea of feminism. This comes, I think, from the insecurity triggered by how boys are brought… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
You can have ambition But not too much You should aim to be successful But not too successful Otherwise you will threaten… — 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
