"We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover……" — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"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."
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111 Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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- I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.
- Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.
- There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way…
- At some point I was a HappyAfricanFeminist who does not hate men. And who likes lip gloss and who wears…
- How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on…
- I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else.
- About 52% of the world's population is female. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by…
- Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.
- Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.
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- Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau