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| 37b9507 | Ela parecia tao feliz, tao em paz, e eu me perguntei como alguem perto de mim podia se sentir assim, quando havia fogo liquido me queimando por dentro, quando o medo misturado a esperanca se agarrava nos meus calcanhares. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 711f460 | As vezes a vida comeca quando o casamento acaba. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 19848ca | Ha alguns meses, ele escreveu dizendo que nao queria que eu ficasse procurando os porques, pois 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. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 26c3b59 | to earn the prize of being taken seriously among Nigerians in America, among Africans in America, indeed among immigrants in America, she needed more years. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 637c0f3 | We spend too much time teaching girls to worry about what boys think of them. But the reverse is not the case. We don't teach boys to care about being likable. We spend too much time telling girls that they cannot be angry or aggressive or tough, which is bad enough, but then we turn around and either praise or excuse men for the same reasons. All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b262426 | But by far the worst thing we do to males--by making them feel they have to be hard--is that we leave them with very fragile egos. 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 teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls: You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim .. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| c1768d3 | Feminista feliz africana que no odia a los hombres y a quien le gusta llevar pintalabios y tacones altos para si misma y no para los hombres" Me encanto, disfrute y ame este libro, se me hicieron muy pocas paginas. hubiera deseado continuar leyendo por mucho mas tiempo el libro, en pocas paginas aporta demasiado, es un libro no para leer una vez sino varias veces una y otra vez, hasta cambiar como dice la autora la mentalidad con la que nos.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 2936328 | Algunas personas preguntan: '?Por que la palabra feminista? ?Por que no solo dices que crees en los derechos humanos, o algo asi? Porque eso seria deshonesto. El feminismo es, por supuesto, parte de los derechos humanos en general, pero elegir la vaga expresion derechos humanos seria negar que existe un problema de genero especifico. Seria una forma de pretender que no fueron las mujeres las que, durante siglos, han sido excluidas. Seria co.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| d34270b | Les ensenemos a las ninas a sentir verguenza. 'Cierra las piernas, cubrete'. Les hacemos sentir como si por haber nacido mujeres ya fueran culpables de algo. Y asi, las ninas crecen y se convierten en mujeres incapaces de decir que tienen deseo. Crecen para ser mujeres que se silencian a si mismas. Crecen para ser mujeres que no pueden decir lo que realmente piensan. Y crecen -y esto es lo peor que le hacemos a las chicas- para ser mujeres .. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 179924a | El problema con el genero es que prescribe como debemos ser, en vez de reconocer como somos. Imagina cuanto mas felices seriamos, cuanta mas libertad tendriamos para ser nosotros mismos, si no tuviesemos el peso de las expectativas de genero"." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 5e0337b | Pasamos demasiado tiempo ensenando a las ninas a preocuparse por lo que piensen de ellas los chicos. Y, sin embargo, con ellos no lo hacemos. No ensenamos a los ninos a preocuparse por caer bien. Pasamos demasiado tiempo diciendo a las chicas que no pueden estar enojadas o ser agresivas o duras, lo cual ya es bastante malo, pero despues nos damos la vuelta y nos dedicamos a elogiar o justificar a los hombres por las mismas razones. El mundo.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e915145 | Lo peor que le hacemos a los ninos -a base de hacerles sentir que tienen que ser duros- es dejarlos con unos egos muy fragiles. Cuanto mas fuerte se siente obligado a ser un hombre, mas debilitado queda su ego. Y luego les hacemos mucho mas mal a las ninas, porque las criamos para que esten al servicio de esos fragiles egos masculinos"." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 8204318 | 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, race matters. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 4707d46 | Because human beings lived then in a world in which physical strength was the most important attribute for survival; the physically stronger person was more likely to lead. And men in general are physically stronger. (There are of course many exceptions.) Today, we live in a vastly diSerent world. The person more qualired to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, mo.. | gender-roles wage-gap | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| a49c896 | Quante altre persone erano diventate nere in America? | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| d55d3f0 | Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out. | Bjarne Stroustrup | ||
| 4ca717a | It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal one dead white person. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 47893c8 | As they walked out of the store, Ifemelu said, "I was waiting for her to ask 'Was it the one with two eyes or the one with two legs?' Why didn't she just ask 'Was it the black girl or the white girl?' " Ginika laughed. "Because this is America. You're supposed to pretend that you don't notice certain things." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 87e188a | People were saying, 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. So some of her female students went and printed Full Human Being on T-shirts. I guess it made her well-known. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 26cc360 | Impossible," he said, and switched to Igbo. "Ama m atu inu. I even know proverbs." "Yes. The basic one everybody knows. A frog does not run in the afternoon for nothing." "No. I know serious proverbs. Akota ife ka ubi, e lee oba. If something bigger than the farm is dug up, the barn is sold." "Ah, you want to try me?" she asked, laughing. "Acho afu adi ako n'akpa dibia. The medicine man's bag has all kinds of things." "Not bad," he said. "E.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 0c51dfc | I just want to be regular. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 04b3f7e | he was out playing and heard Molly calling him. "Richard! Supper!" Instead of answering "Coming!" and running to her, he dodged under a hedge, scraping his knees. "Richard! Richard!" Molly sounded frantic this time, but he remained silent, crouched. "Richard! Where are you, Dicky?" A rabbit stopped and watched him, and he locked eyes with the rabbit and, for those short moments, only he and the rabbit knew where he was. Then the rabbit leap.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| c964349 | 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. So I decided to call myself a Happy Feminist. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e808d32 | Nigerians don't buy houses because they're old. A renovated two-hundred-year-old mill granary, you know, the kind of thing Europeans like. It doesn't work here at all. But of course it makes sense because we 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 | ||
| 672520e | He was now a husband and father, and they had not been in touch in years, yet she could not pretend that he was not a part of her homesickness, or that she did not often think of him, sifting through their past, looking for portents of what she could not name. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 1274f73 | I go to Mexico and they're staring at me. It's not hostile at all, but it just makes you know you stick out, kind of like they like you but you're still King Kong. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 092365e | Was it the one with long hair?" the cashier asked. "Well, both of them had long hair." "The one with dark hair?" Both of them had dark hair. Ginika smiled and looked at the cashier and the cashier smiled and looked at her computer screen, and two damp seconds crawled past before she cheerfully said, "It's okay, I'll figure it out later and make sure she gets her commission." As they walked out of the store, Ifemelu said, "I was waiting for .. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| c2518d1 | They avoided giving direct instructions: they did not say "Ask somebody upstairs"; they said "You might want to ask somebody upstairs." When you tripped and fell, when you choked, when misfortune befell you, they did not say "Sorry." They said "Are you okay?" when it was obvious that you were not. And when you said "Sorry" to them when they choked or tripped or encountered misfortune, they replied, eyes wide with surprise, "Oh, it's not you.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| dcb9bf4 | Don't you just hate it how people say 'I'm pressed' or 'I want to ease myself' when they want to go to the bathroom?" Doris asked. Ifemelu laughed. "I know!" "I guess 'bathroom' is very American. But there's 'toilet,' 'restroom,' 'the ladies.' " "I never liked 'the ladies.' I like 'toilet.' " "Me too!" Doris said. "And don't you just hate it when people here use 'on' as a verb? On the light!" "You know what I can't stand? When people say 't.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| c83e4ea | Okay, babe, okay, I didn't mean for it to be such a big deal," he said." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 938be46 | 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. A person who had to spread the cloak of religion over her own petty desires. Suddenly, the last thing Ifemelu wanted was to be in that s.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 2fee87d | jdy lmy wjdy l'by klhm kn rjl ry'`.klhm wuld fy bdyt lqrn l20 fy rD qbyl@ lbyw ltb`h llHkm lbryTny,klhm qrr n y`lm bnh,klhm kn khfyf lZl.wklhm kn dh kbry.`lmt kl hdh `br lqSS lty Hukyt ly.qbl mwldy bthmy snwt qutl jdy fy byfr kljy'yn b`dm fr mn msqT r'syhm lty sqTt tHt slT@ lHshwd lfydrlyh...ktb@ nSf shms Sfr knt bmthb@ `d rsm shy' lm rh `ly nny Hmlt myrthh km nh km aml Drybty llHb:dhlk lshy' lsHr llmnTqy ldhy yrbT byn lns wldhy yj`ln admyy.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| ce5fd2c | surrounded by students who were all folded easily on their seats, all flush with knowledge, not of the subject of the classes, but of how to be in the classes | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 5451b17 | A person who had to spread the cloak of religion over her own petty desires. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| a6ffb55 | We need to get over that myth. There was nothing Judeo-Christian about American history. Nobody liked Catholics and Jews. It's Anglo-Protestant values, not Judeo-Christian values. Even Maryland very quickly stopped being so Catholic-friendly. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 9048cba | You know who really killed Lumumba?" Master said, looking up from a magazine. "It was the Americans and the Belgians. It had nothing to do with Katanga." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 9665bd5 | Ifemelu sensed that the magazine was a hobby for Aunty Onenu, a hobby that meant something, but still a hobby. Not a passion. Not something that consumed her. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| f1869ba | It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 72c4ea0 | What if both boys and girls were raised not to link masculinity and money? What if their attitude was not "the boy has to pay," but rather, "whoever has more should pay." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| de84d55 | We all have our moments of initiation into the Society of Former Negroes. Mine was in a class in undergrad when I was asked to give the black perspective, only I had no idea what that was. So I just made something up. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| c0b261e | Everything is permissible but not everything is beneficial. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 8f303bf | had pretended | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| fa792b1 | Men ras ar inte biologi; ras ar sociologi. Ras ar inte genotyp; ras ar fenotyp. Ras ar betydelsefullt pa grund av rasismen. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 58991c5 | smiling a smile full of things restrained | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |