"Then she wished, more rationally, that she could……" — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him."
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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 Choicelessness Quotes
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All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether…
— Joseph Epstein
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Only no-mind can be without any duality, because it is empty. The no-mind is choicelessness. The no-mind is pure awareness.…
— Rajneesh
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The man of control lives in choice, and the man of understanding lives in choicelessness.
— Rajneesh
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Consciousness means choicelessness, and to be choiceless is to be free from all desire, is to be free from all…
— Rajneesh
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Enlightenment is choicelessness. But don`t misunderstand me. Before that, you will have to move very cautiously, choosing the right against…
— Rajneesh
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Meditate, become more aware and then you will see: choices disappear, a choicelessness arises. And it is such a tremendous…
— Rajneesh
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Choicelessness brings you to the whole. Choice is always of the part, necessarily so. And then one person goes from…
— Rajneesh
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There is only one way out of the trap: that you don`t choose; neither this nor that - you simply…
— Rajneesh
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A sannyasin is one who has no prejudices, who has not chosen any ideology to be his own, who is…
— Rajneesh
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Just understand, don`t choose - don`t choose even choicelessness. Simply understand the whole situation: that whatsoever you choose, whatsoever you…
— Rajneesh
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Choice is bondage, choicelessness freedom. The moment you choose something, you have fallen in the trap of the world. If…
— Rajneesh
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How not to choose is the whole art of religion, how to drop into a choicelessness. But remember, don`t choose…
— Rajneesh
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