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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f30c59f | Why should a woman's success be a threat to a man? | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 8911545 | Americans will smile at you and be extremely friendly but if your name is not Cory or Chad, they make no effort at saying it properly. The Brits will be surly and will be suspicious if you're too friendly but they will treat foreign names as though they are actually valid names." "That's interesting," | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| c4f34fe | It's strange how I have felt, with every major event that has occurred in my life, that you were the only person who would understand. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 3f930c5 | Foreign behavior? What the fuck are you talking about? Foreign behavior? Have you read Things Fall Apart? Ifemulu asked, wishing she had not told Ranyinudo about Dike. She was angrier with Ranyinudo than she had ever been, yet she knew that Ranyinudo meant well, and had said what many other Nigerians would say, which was why she had not told anyone else about Dike's suicide attempt since she came back. | culture home immigration perception | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| d6eda4c | One day I said to them, Where is the God you worship? They said he was like Chukwu, that he was in the sky. I asked then, Who is the person that was killed, the person that hangs on the wood outside the mission? They said he was the son, but that the son and the father are equal. It was then that I knew that the white man was mad. The father and son are equal? Tufia! Do you not see? | paganism | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 8138ba7 | You looked like the kind of person who will do something because you want to, and not because everyone else is doing it. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| dcb28c3 | Later, she said, "I have to take my braids out for my interviews and relax my hair. Kemi told me that I shouldn't wear braids to the interview. If you have braids, they will think you are unprofessional." "So there are no doctors with braided hair in America?" Ifemelu asked. "I have told you what they told me. You are in a country that is not your own. You do what you have to do if you want to succeed." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 8b18db0 | It was black-black, so thick it drank two containers of relaxer at the salon, so full it took hours under the hooded dryer, and, when finally released from pink plastic rollers, sprang free and full, flowing down her back like a celebration. Her father called it a crown of glory. | afro-hair black-hair hair | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| bc80d9d | Lots of liberal white folks are looking for black friends. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| ba41cca | Tell her that kindness matters. Praise her when she is kind to other people. But teach her that kindness must never be taken for granted. Tell her that she, too, deserves the kindness of others. Teach her to stand up for what is hers. If another child takes her toy without her permission, ask her to take it back, because her consent is important. Tell er that if anything ever makes her uncomfortable, to speak up, to say it, to shout. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 8085ca4 | We raise girls to see each other as competitors--not for jobs or accomplishments, which in my opinion can be a good thing--but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way boys are. If we have sons, we don't mind knowing about their girlfriends. But our daughters' boyfriends? God forbid. (But we of course expect them to bring home the perfect man for marriage when the time is right.) | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 9182039 | It does not have to mean a literal fifty-fifty or a day-by-day score-keeping, but you'll know when the child-care work is equally shared. You'll know by your lack of resentment. Because when there is true equality, resentment does not exist. And | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| f9150c2 | How can you love somebody and yet want to manage the amount of happiness that person is allowed? | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 9f324fc | We must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 56e4432 | Teach her about privilege and inequality and the importance of giving dignity to everyone who does not mean her harm--teach her that the household help is human just like her, teach her always to greet the driver. Link these expectations to her identity--for example, say to her "In our family, when you are a child, you greet those older than you no matter what job they do." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| cd31126 | Isn't it odd that in most societies in the world today, women generally cannot propose marriage? Marriage is such a major step in your life, and yet you cannot take charge of it; it depends on a man asking you. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 322fb76 | He was always thinking of what else to do and she told him that it was rare for her, because she had grown up not doing, but being. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 2553192 | what I hope for Chizalum is this: that she will be full of opinions, and that her opinions will come from an informed, humane and broad-minded place. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 16a8641 | Ifemelu decided to stop faking an American accent on a sunlit day in July, the same day she met Blaine. It was convincing, the accent. She had perfected, from careful watching of friends and newscasters, the blurring of the t, the creamy roll of the r, the sentences starting with "so," and the sliding response of "oh really," but the accent creaked with consciousness, it was an act of will. It took an effort, the twisting of lip, the curlin.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 4a8a297 | You know America has a way of turning everything into an illness that needs medicine. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 1f975f9 | Feelings are just a fire in a field of stubble: it burns for a moment, and then all that's left is soot and ashes. Do you know what the main thing is--the thing a woman should look for in her man? She should look for a quality that's not at all exciting but that's rarer than gold: decency. | Amos Oz | ||
| 3e1d8c7 | But there's also an upside-down sort of happiness, a black happiness, that comes from doing evil to others. | Amos Oz | ||
| 7e467e1 | mlyan hdh ldf` lGryb ldhy lzmny `ndm knt SGyran - lrGb@ 'n 'mnH frS@ 'khr~ lmn l twjd w ln tkwn lhm frS@ thny@ - hw 'Hd ldwf` lty mzlt tHrkny Ht~ lan klm jlst lktb@ qS@ | Amos Oz | ||
| 22b69fe | Judaism and Christianity, and Islam too, all drip honeyed words of love and mercy so long as they do not have access to handcuffs, grills, dominion, torture chambers, and gallows. All these faiths, including those that have appeared in recent generations and continue to mesmerize adherents to this day, all arose to save us and all just as soon started to shed our blood. | Amos Oz | ||
| 2fa4271 | Y me senti un transeunte mas que un dia seria un transeunte menos | Enrique Vila-Matas | ||
| 5b9b35a | I am told that Cesar Aira writes two books a year, at least, some of which are published by a little Argentinean company named Beatriz Viterbo, after the character in Borges's story "The Aleph." The books of his that I have been able to find were published by Mondadori and and Tusquets Argentina. It's frustrating, because once you've started reading Aira, you don't want to stop. His novels seem to put the theories of Gombrowicz into practic.. | Roberto Bolaño | ||
| 85fa169 | After all, what are we, what is any one of us, if not a combination, particular and exact, of what we have done, what we have read, and what we have imagined? | Enrique Vila-Matas | ||
| c38b8bc | We judge people and initiatives by their results, and we expect events to happen for good, understandable reason. But our clear visions of inevitability are often only illusions. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| d3e07f5 | For while anyone can sit back and point to the bottom line as justification, assessing instead a person's actual knowledge and actual ability takes confidence, thought, good judgement, and, well, guts. You can't just stand up in a meeting with your colleagues and yell, "Don't fire her. She was just on the wrong end of a Bernoulli series." Nor is it likely to win you friends if you stand up and say of the gloating fellow who just sold more T.. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| d82be27 | This land was Mexican once, was Indian always and is. And will be again. | land méxico texas | Gloria E. Anzaldúa | |
| 2da727e | I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep | sleeping-staying-up | Gloria E. Anzaldúa | |
| d050989 | I have always been told that a person has to accept that the illness is chronic," she says, at the end of our interview. "You can be 'in recovery,' but you can never be 'recovered.' But I don't want to be on disability forever, and I have started to question whether depression is really a chemical thing. What are the origins of my despair? How can I really help myself? I want to honor the other parts of me, other than the sick part that I'm.. | Robert Whitaker | ||
| e7052a9 | Rather than fix chemical imbalances in the brain, the drugs creat them. (207) | Robert Whitaker | ||
| 2ea5eba | When the truth emerges, it can't be ignored. Nor will it wait. | honesty-quotes telling-the-truth truth women women-s-fiction women-writers | Barbara Delinsky | |
| 7fd3dce | But the constant motion of the flames soon lulled him into a passive state where unrelated fragments of thoughts, sounds, images, and emotions drifted through him like snowflakes falling from a calm winter's sky. | eragon fire | Christopher Paolini | |
| 9e40bbc | No, he said, we are not alone. I have you, and you have me. And there is Arya and Nasuada and Orik, and many others besides who will help us along our way. | brisingr companionship friendship | Christopher Paolini | |
| db0c7ec | He began to write his thoughts and observations concerning the day's events [...] It helped him better understand everything he had seen and done over the course of the day. | journal understanding writing | Christopher Paolini | |
| e1206e2 | By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| a24bfbc | It's not the wolves out there," said Eragon, hugging himself. "It's the wolves in here." He tapped the middle of his forehead" | Christopher Paolini | ||
| f46d319 | A person may dislike his choice, but he will stand by it because, even in the worst circumstances, he believes that it was the best option available to him at the time. | Christopher Paolini | ||
| 3d2e830 | Never let your obstacles become more important than your goal. | Dashka Slater | ||
| 4db01e6 | A thousand times, when the train slowed or stopped, I thought of jumping off. I wanted to die in a ditch. I wanted to disappear. I wanted a different history and geography. In rhythm with the wheels I said I want I want I want I want I stayed on the train. | Lewis Nordan | ||
| 7984e7f | They walked in silence through the little streets of Chinatown. Women from all over the world smiled at them from open windows, stood on the doorsteps inviting them in. Some of the rooms were exposed to the street. Only a curtain concealed the beds. One could see couples embracing. There were Syrian women wearing their native costume, Arabian women with jewelry covering their half-naked bodies, Japanese and Chinese women beckoning slyly, bi.. | delta-of-venus | Anaïs Nin | |
| 59856d3 | His room was like an explorer's den, a lair of furs, the cave of a magician. | Anaïs Nin |