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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 82c00f2 | It was a tiny moment, brief and fleeting, but Olanna noticed how scrupulously they avoided any contact, any touch of skin, as if they were united by a common knowledge so monumental that they were determined not to be united by anything else. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e07cd90 | Ginika told her that 'fat' in America was a bad word, heaving with moral judgement like 'stupid' or 'bastard,' and not a mere description liked 'short' or 'tall.' So, she had banished the word 'fat' from her vocabulary...She said the word 'fat' slowly, funneling it back and forward, and thought about all the other things she had learned not to say aloud in America. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| a0ff1ed | The wind blowing across the British Isles was odorous with fear of asylum seekers, infecting everybody with the panic of impending doom, and so articles were written and read, simply and stridently, as though the writers lived in a world in which the present was unconnected to the past, and they had never considered this to be the normal course of history: the influx into Britain of black and brown people from countries created by Britain. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b9437de | I should never call myself a feminist since feminists are women who are unhappy because they cannot find husbands. So I decided to call myself a Happy Feminist. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| d71e5e8 | blog brought Blaine back into her life. At the Blogging While | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 43d3bc9 | Oh, why did he slap her when she's a widow, and that annoyed her even more. She said she should not have been slapped because she is a full human being, not because she doesn't have a husband to speak for her. | inspirational | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 41d4cc5 | Try listening, maybe. Hear what is being said. And remember that it's not about you. American Blacks are not telling you that you are to blame. They are just telling you what is. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 5f180fc | America's ladder of races, Jewish is white but also some rungs below white. A bit confusing, | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| cde54a0 | When you use the "nude" color of underwear and Band-Aids, do you already know that it will not match your skin?" | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 869acf6 | she looked admiringly at one of them, a woman in a very short skirt. She thought nothing of slender legs shown off in miniskirts--it was safe and easy, after all, to display legs of which the world approved--but the fat woman's act was about the quiet conviction that one shared only with oneself, a sense of rightness that others failed to see. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| c3ab8e7 | layer after layer of discontent had settled in her, and formed a mass that now propelled her. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 619efa3 | 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 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 stylishness. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| a825841 | But if we start raising children differently, then in fifty years, in a hundred years, boys will no longer have the pressure of proving their masculinity by material means. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 0a89120 | Basta con que uno hable espanol pero no sea de Espana, y voila, pertenece a una raza llamada hispana. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 8041f87 | are Third Worlders and Third Worlders are forward-looking, we like things to be new, because our best is still ahead, while in the West their best is already past and so they have to make a fetish of that past. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b97c43c | 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. | feminist | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 10899e8 | Young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled, Americans have sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of red states and blue states. We have been and always will be the United States of America. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e526399 | 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 men. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women. I | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| f3d88c5 | 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. We | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 4f19a95 | For centuries, the world divided human beings into two groups and then proceeded to exclude and oppress one group. It is only fair that the solution to the problem acknowledge that. Some | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| c638f20 | Teach her to question language. Language is the repository of our prejudices, our beliefs, our assumptions. .. Try not to use words like "misogyny" and "patriarchy" too often with Chizaleum. We can sometimes be too jargony, and jargon can feel too abstract." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 9bcaf43 | La cultura no hace a la gente. La gente hace la cultura | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b84ad33 | She said she should not have been slapped because she is a full human being, not because she doesn't have a husband to speak for her. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| da2fab5 | Ensena a Chizalum a leer. Ensenale el amor por los libros. La mejor manera de hacerlo es mediante el ejemplo. Si te ve leyendo, comprendera que leer es valioso. Si no fuera a la escuela y solo leyera libros, posiblemente sabria mas que un nino educado de manera convencional. Los libros la ayudaran a entender el mundo y cuestionarselo, la ayudaran a expresarse y la ayudaran en aquello en lo que quiera convertirse: una chef, una cientifica, u.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| fba562e | En lugar de ensenarle a tu hija a agradar, ensenale a ser sincera. Y amable. Y valiente. Animala a decir lo que piensa, a decir lo que opina en realidad, a decir la verdad. [...] Dile que, si algo la incomoda, se queje, grite.>> | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 36c3db4 | The late Kenyan Nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said, the higher you go, the fewer women there are. In | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| f7add9b | 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. A man is as likely as a woman to be intelligent, innovative, creative. We have evolved. But our ideas of gender have not evolved very much. Not | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 8a3dac1 |
Ensenale sobre privilegios y desigualdades y la importancia de respetar la dignidad de todo aquel que no le quiera mal: ensenale que el servicio es igual de humano que ella, ensenale a saludar siempre al chofer. Relaciona estas expectativas con su identidad; dile, por ejemplo: < |
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| 52ccbd3 | Si le gusta el maquillaje, deja que se maquille. Si le gusta la moda, deja que se arregle. Pero si no le gusta ni una cosa ni la otra, dejala tranquila. No creas que criar a una feminista consiste en obligarla a rechazar la feminidad. Feminismo y feminidad no se excluyen mutuamente. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| ebafb50 | The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing who we are. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 556e668 | Una buena educacion no es lo mismo que convertir el mundo entero en algo que explicar! Hasta | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 611039a | Feminism and Femininity are not mutually exclusive. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| a738686 | Ensenale a que no haga universales sus principios y experiencias. Ensenale que sus principios son solo para ella, no para los demas. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| d080e56 | He thought the police would have to do better; everyone knew the cult boys had more modern guns | nnamabia | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 8132a4e | me doy cuenta de lo facil que es dar consejos sobre como criar a los hijos cuando no tienes que enfrentarte a la enorme complejidad que comporta. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 9fda8b3 | Doris's | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 74bfc6e | like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 0f09012 |
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| 0ccb82d | But here is a sad truth: Our world is full of men and women who do not like powerful women. We have been so conditioned to think of power as male that a powerful woman is an aberration. And so she is policed. We ask of powerful women: Is she humble? Does she smile? Is she grateful enough? Does she have a domestic side? Questions we do not ask of powerful men, which shows that our discomfort is not with power itself, but with women. We judge.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| de19362 |
Ensenale a que nunca, jamas, diga tonterias del calibre < |
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| e8853e8 | Hablale sobre la diferencia. Convierte la diferencia en habitual. Haz normal la diferencia. Ensenale a que valore la diferencia. Y no es para que sea justa o buena, sino simplemente para que sea humana y practica. Porque la diferencia es la realidad de nuestro mundo. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| c28d2b5 | Ojiugo often asked, 'But are they treating you well? Are they treating you well?' as though the treatment was what mattered, rather than the blighted reality of it all, that he was in a holding center, about to be deported. Nobody behaved normally. They were all under the spell of his misfortune. | incarceration | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 0cc8193 | real deep romantic love, the kind that twists you and wrings you out and makes you breathe through the nostrils of your beloved. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| c933d19 | she thought of him as a person who did not have a normal spine, but had instead, a firm reed of goodness. | goodness morality | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |