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| 19d892a | I thought then of catechism classes, about chanting the answer to a question, an answer that was "because he has said it and his word is true." I could not remember the question." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| d80e1a1 | We teach females, that in relationships, 'compromise' is what women do. We raise girls to see each other as competitors, not for jobs, or for accomplishments -- which I think can be a good thing -- but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| bb9a41b | So I decided I would now be a Happy African Feminist Who Does Not Hate Men. At some point I was a Happy African Feminist Who Does Not Hate Men And Who Likes To Wear Lip Gloss And High Heels For Herself And Not For Men. Of | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 4791db4 | The only reason you say that race was not an issue is because you wish it was not. We all wish is was not. But it's a lie. I came from a country where race was not an issue; I did not think myself as black and I only became black when I came to America. When you are black in America and you fall in love with a white person, race doesn't matter when you're alone together because it's just you and your love. But the minute you step outside, r.. | interracialdating yas | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| eef5873 | but what struck me was that whenever he changed the baby's diaper, she said thank you to him. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 473eed0 | 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. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| ad27bd3 | You can't even read American fiction to get a sense of how actual life is lived these days. You read American fiction to learn about dysfunctional white folk doing things that are weird to normal white folks. | modern-fiction | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 5e0227f | All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please these men. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 99cf804 | Laura picked up the menu again. "In graduate school I knew a woman from Africa who was just like this doctor, I think she was from Uganda. She was wonderful, and she didn't get along with the African-American woman in our class at all. She didn't have all those issues." "Maybe when the African American's father was not allowed to vote because he was black, the Ugandan's father was running for parliament or studying at Oxford," Ifemelu said... | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 4059670 | In every culture in the world, female sexuality is about shame. Even cultures that expect women to be sexy-like many in the West-still do not expect them to be sexual. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| ab05e58 | I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femininity. And I want to be respected in all my femaleness. Because I deserve to be. I like politics and history and am happiest when having a good argument about ideas. I am girly. I am happily girly. I like high heels and trying on lipsticks. It's nice to be complimented by both men and women (although I have to be honest and say that I prefer the compliments of stylish women), but I often .. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 4a739be | We condition girls to aspire to marriage and we do not condition boys to aspire to marriage, and so there is already a terrible imbalance at the start. The girls will grow up to be women preoccupied with marriage. The boys will grow up to be men who are not preoccupied with marriage. The women marry those men. The relationship is automatically uneven because the institution matters more to one than the other. Is it any wonder that, in so ma.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 8cd266e | Because I am female, I'm expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 29e547f | We also need to question the idea of marriage as a prize to women, because that is the basis of these absurd debates. If we stopped conditioning women to see marriage as a prize, then we would have fewer debates about a wife needing to cook in order to earn that prize. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 707aaa6 | There must be more than male benevolence as the basis for a woman's well-being. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 440fe14 | Of course I am angry. I am angry about racism. I am angry about sexism. But I recently came to the realization that I am angrier about sexism than I am about racism. Because in my anger about sexism, I often feel lonely. Because I love, and live among, many people who easily acknowledge race injustice but not gender injustice. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 5f7524c | Look at you. You're the kindest person I know. Look how beautiful you are. Why do you need so much outside of yourself? Why isn't what you are enough? | self-confidence self-esteem | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| bc23f4c | I prefer Ms. because it is similar to Mr. A man is Mr. whether married or not, a woman is Ms. whether married or not. So please teach Chizalum that in a truly just society, women should not be expected to make marriage-based changes that men are not expected to make. Here's a nifty solution: Each couple that marries should take on an entirely new surname, chosen however they want as long as both agree to it, so that a day after the wedding,.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| d50d944 | Let her know that there are many individuals and many cultures that do not find the narrow mainstream definition of beauty attractive. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 98f7481 | Every man wants love, if he can get past the fear of exposure. | love-quotes love-story romance love | Barbara Delinsky | |
| 05c5b8d | Tombstones don't list jobs, they list relationships-mother, wife, daughter. | Barbara Delinsky | ||
| ee9bcda | The question was whether James would love me if I was someone else. | marriage | Barbara Delinsky | |
| cea5f57 | es que no habra plan ninguno para vivir con cierto decoro? | Pío Baroja | ||
| 41cf209 | with Jewish families: they believed that education was an investment in the future, the only thing that no one can ever take away from your children, even if, heaven forbid, there's another war, another revolution, another migration, more discriminatory laws--your diploma you can always fold up quickly, hide it in the seams of your clothes, and run away to wherever Jews are allowed to live. | Amos Oz | ||
| 5f11cc2 | only a woman has the power to choose whether or not to bestow. | Amos Oz | ||
| 83d344b | Many a wise man lacks for sense, Many a fool has a heart of gold, Happiness often ends in tears, But what's inside can never be told. | Amos Oz | ||
| cad72dd | And in fact that selfsame strange urge I had when I was small - the desire to grant a second chance to something that could never have one - is still one of the urges that set me going today whenever I sit down to write a story. | Amos Oz | ||
| ea23950 | Personally I do not believe in world reform. No. I do not believe in any kind of world reform. Not because I consider that the world is perfect as it is--certainly not, the world is crooked and grim and full of suffering--but whoever comes along to reform it soon sinks in rivers of blood. Now let's drink a glass of tea and leave aside these obscenities you've brought me today. If only all religions and all revolutions vanished from the face.. | Amos Oz | ||
| 6771f98 | He begins collecting books as well as passions, he knows that the hunt for books, like sexual pursuit, enriches the geography of pleasure. | Enrique Vila-Matas | ||
| 374a652 | Busco el recogimiento, porque suele ser mas interesante la literatura que la vida. No se si es paradojico, pero me gusta muchisimo la vida porque, digan lo que digan, se parece a una gran novela. | literatura enrique-vila-matas | Enrique Vila-Matas | |
| 8380e9d | Horroriza el nivel de ignorancia de este pais y, sobre todo, de satisfaccion con esa ignorancia. Es un pais con mucha inquina y mucha mala leche, de escasa --por no decir nula-- categoria moral. Y a mi me parece que si eres minimamente culto, estas perdido. | ignorancia enrique-vila-matas | Enrique Vila-Matas | |
| e5909cf | Sera que lo domestico -ese veneno que acaba con las pasiones y que tambien llamamos cotidianidad- lo arruina todo? [...] ?Es el genio, como insisten algunos, una persona insoportablemente normal en la vida cotidiana? ?Se puede ser genial todo el rato? | diatario-voluble genio enrique-vila-matas | Enrique Vila-Matas | |
| 4c71ec3 | El pasado, decia Proust, no solo es fugaz, es que no se mueve de sitio. Con Paris pasa lo mismo, jamas ha salido de viaje. Y encima es interminable, no se acaba nunca. | pasado proust | Enrique Vila-Matas | |
| 7470308 | I was full of doubts, of course, not a particularly bad way to be, but I didn't know that. Doubting so much made me suffer, but I could have saved myself the anxiety and simply doubted, without any problem. I was unaware that to doubt is to write. Marguerite Duras would say so in 1995, toward the end of her days: "I can say what I like, but I shall never know why people write and how it is people don't write. In life, there comes a time, an.. | Enrique Vila-Matas | ||
| e0294aa | En una descripcion bien hecha, aunque sea obscena, hay algo moral: la voluntad de decir la verdad. Cuando se usa el lenguaje para simplemente obtener un efecto, para no ir mas alla de lo que nos esta permitido, se incurre paradojicamente en un acto inmoral. | Enrique Vila-Matas | ||
| 152f981 | In his theory Perrow recognized that modern systems are made up of thousands of parts, including fallible human decision makers, which interrelate in ways that are, like Laplace's atoms, impossible to track and anticipate individually. Yet one can bet on the fact that just as atoms executing a drunkard's walk will eventually get somewhere, so too will accidents eventually occur. Called normal accident theory, Perrow's doctrine describes how.. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 155a5c5 | If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 1e0d923 | the human sensory system sends the brain about eleven million bits of information each second.9 However, anyone who has ever taken care of a few children who are all trying to talk to you at once can testify that your conscious mind cannot process anywhere near that amount. The actual amount of information we can handle has been estimated to be somewhere between sixteen and fifty bits per second. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| e354dce | To understand my doctor's error, let's employ Bayes's method. The first step is to define the sample space. We could include everyone who has ever taken an HIV test, but we'll get a more accurate result if we employ a bit of additional relevant information about me and consider only heterosexual non-IV-drug-abusing white male Americans who have taken the test. (We'll see later what kind of difference this makes.) Now that we know whom to in.. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 1f4c6f4 | there are two ways to get at the truth: the way of the scientist and the way of the lawyer. Scientists gather evidence, look for regularities, form theories explaining their observations, and test them. Attorneys begin with a conclusion they want to convince others of and then seek evidence that supports it, while also attempting to discredit evidence that doesn't. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 594c545 | You're wasting your time," he said. "You don't learn how to discover things by reading books on it. And psychology is a bunch of bullshit." | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| aa8097b | Einstein had, for the first time connected new and measurable consequences to statistical physics. That might sound like a largely technical achievement, but on the contrary, it represented the triumph of a great principle: that much of the order we percieve in nature belies an invisible underlying disorder and hence can be understood only through the rules of randomness. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 93e189b | Nie pytaj prozno, bo nikt sie nie dowie. Jaki nam koniec gotuja bogowie, I babilonskich nie pytaj wrozbiarzy. Lepiej tak przyjac wszystko, jak sie zdarzy. A czy z rozkazu Jowisza ta zima, Co teraz wichrem welny morskie wzdyma, Bedzie ostatnia, czy tez nam przysporzy Lat jeszcze kilka tajny wyrok bozy, Nie troszcz sie o to i ... klaruj swe wina. Mknie rok za rokiem, jak jedna godzina. Wiec lap dzien kazdy, a nie wierz ni troche W zludnej prz.. | inspirational leukonoe polish sienkiewicz | Horace | |
| ca4f5de | What dreadful misfortune awaited them among the savage hordes intoxicated with blood? | suspence | Henryk Sienkiewicz |