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Girl Quotes by 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'.
- Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye … I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, whose kinky…
- The idea that sex is something a woman gives a man, and she loses something when she does that, which again for me is nonsense.…
- We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.
- 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 our…
- We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls: 'You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim…
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