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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has 111 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them…
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The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality…
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I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.
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Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.
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There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be…
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At some point I was a HappyAfricanFeminist who does not hate men. And who likes lip gloss and who wears high heels…
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How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.
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I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else.
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About 52% of the world's population is female. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The…
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Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.
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Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.
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I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all…
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Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Sex in marriage is like medicine. Three times a day for the first week. Then once a day for another week. Then…
— Peter De Vries
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The Bible is no ordinary book. The words are like medicine to your soul, and it has the power to change your…
— Joyce Meyer
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Criticism is like medicine. It’s poison unless carefully administered at the right dose.
— Michael Hyatt
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Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.
— Cedric Price
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The ibtilaa' (testing) of the believer is like medicine for him. It cures him from illness. Had the illness remained it would…
— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
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The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only…
— Michel de Montaigne
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There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and…
— Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.
— Max Irons
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I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's…
— Michael Moore
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The ordinary can be like medicine.
— Sherman Alexie
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