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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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As I say yes to life, life says yes to me!
— Louise Hay
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The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge…
— Albert Einstein
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The heart says yes, but the mind says no.
— Albert Einstein
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I hate a man who always says yes to me. When I say no I like a man who also says no.
— Samuel Goldwyn
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You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy…
— Wayne Shorter
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Culture does not make people - people make culture. So if it is in fact true that the full humanity of women…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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My effort here is to create bliss, not happiness. Happiness is worthless; it depends on unhappiness. Bliss is transcendence: one moves beyond…
— Rajneesh
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When everyone else says you can't, determination says,'YES YOU CAN.'
— Robert M. Hensel
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Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.
— William James
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Einstein comes along and says, space and time can warp and curve, that's what gravity is. Now string theory comes along and…
— Brian Greene
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The sale begins when the customer says yes.
— Harvey Mackay
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Don't take 'no' for an answer. Keep knocking down walls until someone says 'yes.'
— Chelsea Handler
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