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Teach 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'.
- 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…
- Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a…
- 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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