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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6c918db | His optimism blinded her. He was full of plans. "I have an idea!" he said often. She imagined him as a child surrounded by too many brightly colored toys, always being encouraged to carry out "projects", always being told that his mundane ideas were wonderful." | optimist | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 419e393 | 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 woman wo are unhappy because they cannot find husbands. So I decided to call myself a Happy Feminist. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| c8b16d6 | If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over, it becomes normal. If only boys are made class monitor, then at some point we will all think, even if unconsciously, that the class monitor has to be a boy. If we keep seeing only men as heads of corporations, it starts to seem "natural" that only men should be heads of corporations. I" | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 1c797bf | A questao de genero, como esta estabelecida hoje em dia, e uma grande injustica. Estou com raiva. Devemos ter raiva. Ao longo da historia, muitas mudancas positivas so aconteceram por causa da raiva. Alem da raiva, tambem tenho esperanca, porque acredito profundamente na capacidade de os seres humanos evoluirem. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| f22e1e2 | 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.) We | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 3a3a8f4 | He pulled her to him, and for a while Olanna did nothing, her body limp against his. She was used to this, being grabbed by men who walked around in a cloud of cologne-drenched entitlement, with the presumption that, because they were powerful and found her beautiful, they belonged together. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| d6d35b2 | She recognized in Kelsey the nationalism of liberal Americans who copiously criticized America but did not like you to do so; they | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| a38e1d4 | Even though you would like to be able to decide for yourself how offended to be, or whether to be offended at all, you must nevertheless be very offended. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 64a23d2 | What she must feel for him was an awed fear. Whether or not Mama had told her to go to his room, she had not said no to Odenigbo because she had not even considered that she could say no. Odenigbo made a drunken pass and she submitted willingly and promptly. He was the master, he spoke English, he had a car. It was the way it should be. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 82e723a | New Haven smelled of neglect. Baltimore smelled of brine, and Brooklyn of sun-warmed garbage. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e46089d | loping, comfortable gait pulled my eyes and held them. I turned and dashed into the flat. I could see the front yard | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e51c6fe | When you want to join a prestigious social club, do you wonder if your race will make it difficult to join? If you do well in a situation, do you expect to be called a credit to your race? Or to be described as different from the majority of your race? If you need legal or medical help, do you worry that your race might work against you? If you take a job with an affirmative action employer, do you worry that your co-workers will think that.. | racism-in-america social-strata truth-of-life | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 96e7dc9 | You know it was love at first sight for both of us," he said." | love-at-first-sight romance | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 5b55c5f | We have confidence but no dignity. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 575604f | 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 | ||
| 1bc2776 | Anyway, since feminism was un-African, I decided I would now call myself a Happy African Feminist. Then a dear friend told me that calling myself a feminist meant that I hated men. 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 | ||
| 925c8e9 | He had proved himself to the other men by how well he did at training, how he scaled the obstacles and shimmied up the rough rope, but he had made no friend. He said very little. He did not want to know their stories. It was better to leave each man's load unopened, undisturbed, in his own mind. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 54412c9 | And, by the way, you and the guy | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 7f2df5a | brought with it amorphous longings, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| cac59ef | In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. | racism | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 87db796 | there is nothing more beautiful than what God gave me. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 445b9c2 | If you are a woman, you are not supposed to express anger, because it is threatening. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| c12d447 | The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is. And then we do a much greater disservice to girls, because we raise them to cater to the fragile egos of males. We | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 5b866bc | Your mother never wanted to remarry?" "Even if she wanted to, I don't think she would, because of me. I want her to be happy, but I don't want her to remarry." "I would feel the same way. Did she really fight with another professor?" "So you heard that story." "They said it's why she had to leave Nsukka University." "No, she didn't fight. She was on a committee and they discovered that this professor had misused funds and my mother accused .. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 8e20654 | We have fried chicken in common? Do you realize how loaded fried chicken is as a metaphor here? | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e4c3a0b | because it was best if things were simply left at splendid. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| dfa0ec2 | America's tribalisms--race, ideology, and region--became clear. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 26d0d8e | she added that academics were not intellectuals; they were not curious, they built their stolid tents of specialized knowledge and stayed securely in them. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 86d1359 | hair away from her face, as though one hand could not possibly tame all that hair. "How nice to meet you," she said to Ifemelu, smiling, as they shook hands, her hand small," | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 9229493 | Ifemelu opened her novel, Jean Toomer's Cane, and skimmed a few pages. She had been meaning to read it for a while now, and imagined she would like it since Blaine did not. A precious performance, Blaine had called it, in that gently forbearing tone he used when they talked about novels, as though he was 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 writt.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| da6375a | She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself. With him, she was at ease; her skin felt as though it was her right size. She | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| f544e81 | It was not as if he did not know what living in Lagos could do to a woman married to a young and wealthy man, how easy it was to slip into paranoid about 'Lagos girls,' those sophisticated monsters of glamour who swallowed husbands whole, slithering them down their throats. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| bb37f80 | They had both wanted it to happen and they both wished it had not; what mattered now was that nobody else should ever know. | regret | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 2051a1c | Their silence was full of stones. Ifemelu felt like apologizing, although she was not quite sure what she would be apologizing for. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 3aa5ab8 | The Red Cross irritated Ugwu; the least they could do was ask Biafrans their preferred foods rather than sending so much bland flour. | ignorance | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| cbc40f8 | How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives that we have imagined. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| f5d43ef | You know, we live in an ass-licking economy. The biggest problem in this country is not corruption. The problem is that there are many qualified people who are not where they are supposed to be because they won't lick anybody's ass, or they don't know which ass to lick or they don't even know how to lick an ass. I'm lucky to be licking the right ass." She smiled. "It's just luck. Oga said I was well brought up, that I was not like all the L.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| a64ab41 | And then we do a much greater disservice to girls, because we raise them to cater to the fragile egos of males. We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 6190627 | Other men might respond by saying: Okay, this is interesting, but I don't think like that. I don't even think about gender. Maybe not. And that is part of the problem. That many men do not actively think about gender or notice gender. | gender-equality men-and-feminism | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 678150a | Ifemelu margined them when they traveled: they would collect unusual things and fill their homes with them, unpolished evidence of their polish. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 13784a8 | With him, she felt breakable, precious. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 16e697f | the idea of looking shabby because you could afford not to be shabby; it mocked true shabbiness. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 7639733 | The second tool is a question: Can you reverse X and get the same results? ... If the answer is yes, then your choosing to forgive him can be a feminist choice because it is not shaped by a gender inequality. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 53c3975 | Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |