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Si no les ponemos a nuestros hijos la camisa de fuerza de los roles de genero les dejamos espacio para que alcancen su maximo potencial.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Si criticas X en las mujeres pero no lo criticas en los hombres, tal vez no tengas un problema con X, sino con las mujeres.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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En ocasiones [...] se da por hecho que las mujeres se suponen moralmente <> que los hombres. No lo son. Las mujeres son igual de humanas que los hombres.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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The value we give to "Mrs." means that marriage changes the social status of a woman bur not that of a man."
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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No todas las mujeres son feministas y no todos los hombres son misoginos.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Saying no when no feels right is something to be proud of.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Today, we live in a vastly different world. The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative. And there are no hormones for those attributes
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Everybody will have an opinion about what you should do, but what matters is what you want for yourself.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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And speaking of shame-never, ever link sexuality and shame. Or nakedness and shame. Do not ever make 'virginity' a focus. Every conversation about virginity becomes a conversation about shame. Teach her to reject the linking of shame and female biology.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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The knowledge of cooking does not come pre-installed in a vagina. Cooking is learned.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Women must be 'covered up' to protect men. I find this deeply dehumanizing because it reduces women to mere props used to manage the appetites of men.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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When Sister Ibinabo was talking to Christie, with that poisonous spite she claimed was religious guidance, Ifemelu had looked at her and suddenly seen something of her own mother. Her mother was a kinder and simpler person, but like Sister Ibinabo, she was a person who denied that things were as they were.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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ha certas coisas que acontecem e para as quais nao podemos formular um porque, para as quais os porques simplesmente nao existem e para as quais, talvez, eles nao sejam necessarios
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chimamanda ngozi adichie |
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A las ninas les decimos: Puedes tener ambicion, pero no demasiada. Debes intentar tener exito, pero no demasiado, porque entonces estaras amenazando a los hombres. Si tu eres el sosten economico en tu relacion con un hombre, finge que no lo eres, sobre todo en publico, porque si no lo estaras castrando. [...] ?Por que el exito de una mujer ha de ser una amenaza para un hombre?
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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He told me that people were saying my novel was feminist, and his advice to me--he was shaking his head sadly as he spoke--was that I should never call myself a feminist since feminists are women who are unhappy because they cannot find husbands.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Of course it was angry. Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Never apologize for working. You love what you do, and loving what you do is a great gift to give your child.' I find this to be so wise and moving. You don't even have to love your job; you can merely love what your job does for you - the confidence and self-fulfilment that come with doing and earning.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Si solo vemos a hombres presidiendo empresas, empezara a parecernos <> que solo haya hombres presidentes de empresas.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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teach a writing workshop in Lagos and one of the participants, a young woman, told me that a friend had told her not to listen to my "feminist talk"; otherwise she would absorb ideas that would destroy her marriage."
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Do you usually decide what answers you will believe before you do an interview?
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Cuanto mas duro se siente obligado a ser un hombre, mas debilitado queda su ego.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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She had read many of them, because he recommended them, but they were like cotton candy that so easily evaporated from her tongue's memory.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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We police girls. We praise girls for virginity but we don't praise boys for virginity.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way boys are.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Be deliberate also about showing her the enduring beauty and resilience of Africans and of black people. Why? Because of the power dynamics in the world, she will grow up seeing images of white beauty, white ability, and white achievement, no matter where she is in the world. It will be in the TV shows she watches, in the popular culture she consumes, in the books she reads.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Teach her that to love is not only to give but also to take. This is important because we give girls subtle cues about their lives - we teach girls that a large component of their ability to love is their ability to sacrifice their selves. We do not teach this to boys. Teach her that to love she must give of herself emotionally but she must also expect to be given to.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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He was already looking at their relationship through the lens of the past tense.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Chispeante Paola era como las estrellas plateadas que las maestras de Curt pegaban en las hojas de su cuaderno en primaria, fuentes de placer superficial y efimero.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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that gently forbearing tone that he used when they talked about novels, as though he were sure that she, with a little more time and a little more wisdom, would come to accept that the novels he liked were superior, novels written by young and youngish men and packed with things, a fascinating, confounding accumulation of brands and music and comic books and icons, with emotions skimmed over, and each sentence stylishly aware of its own sty..
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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To restore the dignity of man. Obiora was reading the plaque, too. He let out a short cackle and asked, "But when did man lose his dignity?"
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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University was bigger and baggier, there was room to hide, so much room; she did not feel as though she did not belong because there were so many options for belonging.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Iloba would often...appear at Obinze's door on Sunday afternoons when Obinze was tired from the langour of Sunday afternoons.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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He thinks we should complicate it, so it's not race alone...'Nuance' means keep people comfortable so everyone is free to think of themselves as individuals and everyone got where they are because of achievement.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Ifemelu told her about the vertigo she had felt the first time she went to the supermarket; in the cereal aisle, she had wanted to get corn flakes, which she was used to eating back home, but suddenly confronted by a hundred different cereal boxes, in a swirl of colors and images, she had fought dizziness. She told this story because she thought it was funny; it appealed harmlessly to the American ego.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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This is really corny but I am so full of you, it's like I'm breathing you, you know?" he had said, and she thought that the romance novelists were wrong and it was men, not women, who were the true romantics."
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Some people ask, 'Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?' Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general - but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender, it would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Please note that I am not suggesting that you raise her to be "non-judgemental," which is is a commonly used expression these days, and which slightly worries me. The general sentiment behind the idea is a fine one, but "non-judgmental" can easily devolve into meaning "don't have an opinion about anything" or "I keep my opinions to myself." And so, instead of that, what I hope for Chizalum is this: that she will be full of opinions, and tha..
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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it is one thing to know something intellectually and quite another to feel it emotionally.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Pero se sentia incomoda con lo que los profesores llamaban <>, y no entendia por que eso debia incluirse en la nota final; solo servia para inducir a los alumnos a hablar y hablar, perdiendo tiempo de clase con obviedades, vacuidades, a veces sinsentidos
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Ifemelu imaginaba a los autores, nigerianos en casas lugubres de Estados Unidos, sus vidas amortecidas por el trabajo, guardando el dinero ahorrado con cuidado a lo largo del ano para poder visitar su pais en diciembre durante una semana, y entonces llegarian con maletas llenas de zapatos y ropa y relojes baratos, y verian, en los ojos de sus parientes, imagenes de si mismos intensamente brunidas. Despues regresarian a Estados Unidos para s..
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Estas en un pais que no es el tuyo. Para salir adelante, haces lo que tengas que hacer.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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and they had never considered this to be the normal course of history: the influx into Britain of black and brown people frount countries created by Britain.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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And what's a Magic Negro, you ask? The black man who is eternally wise and kind. He never reacts under great suffering, never gets angry, is never threatening. He always forgives all kinds of racist shit. He teaches the white person how to break down the sad but understandable prejudice in his heart. You see this man in many films. And Obama is straight from central casting.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Waugh is the best of them. Brideshead is the
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |