"I was stained by failure." — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"I was stained by failure."
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111 Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has 111 quotes on this site.
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to…
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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'.…
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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…
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At some point I was a HappyAfricanFeminist who does not hate men. And who likes lip gloss and who wears…
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How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on…
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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…
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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…
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More Failure Quotes
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from…
— Karen Armstrong
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Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
— Lance Armstrong
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For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a…
— Mary Kay Ash
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
— Arthur Ashe
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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result…
— Paul Auster
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Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
— Charles Babbage
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Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get…
— Jensen Ackles
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It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
— Roger Babson
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The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not…
— Edward Bach
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People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't…
— Michele Bachmann
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