"That her relationship with him was like being……" — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out"
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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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I'm endlessly putting myself on tapes for things over in America! I'm always sitting at home, learning lines, sending stuff…
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There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. In a way, I…
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The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.
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The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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The boy sat at his desk, Watching, Observing, Always aware. He saw the joy, The friendships, Heard the giggles, Yet…
— Eric Nickel
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