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
Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by 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
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 find that women... deal with immigration differently. And I'm interested in that. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, I think it's been quite clear that there's no way I could possibly say that trans women are… — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger… — 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
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
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
I don't think it's a good thing to talk about women's issues being exactly the same as the issues of trans women… — 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
“It doesn't have to be dreads. You can wear an Afro, or braids like you used to. There's a lot you can… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“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 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
