"We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make……" — 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'."
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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 Ambition Quotes
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Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as…
— Mary Kay Ash
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We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you…
— Mary Kay Ash
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All…
— Saint Augustine
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by…
— Marcus Aurelius
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A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
— Marcus Aurelius
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All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was…
— Paul Auster
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Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of…
— Sai Baba
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
— Charles Babbage
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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.…
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
— Pearl Bailey
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The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now…
— Russell Baker
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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
— James A. Baldwin
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