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| 86750ad | the most unforgettable dinner parties happened when guests said unexpected, and potentially offensive, things. The | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| c93b609 | her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| dcae9fe | Of course, of course, but my point is that the only authentic identity for the African is the tribe,' Master said. 'I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed black to be as different as possible from his white. But I was Igbo before the white man came. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b2f8667 | Blaine needed what she was unable to give and she needed what he was unable to give, and she grieved this, the loss of what could have been. So | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e92ff70 | maybe it's time to just scrap the word "racist." Find something new. Like Racial Disorder Syndrome. And we could have different categories for sufferers of this syndrome: mild, medium, and acute. CHAPTER 35 Ifemelu woke up one night to go to the bathroom, and heard Blaine in the living room, talking on the phone, his tone gentle and solacing." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 75e3ab8 | If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over it becomes normal. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 3e432a2 | Feminist: a person who believes in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes. My | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 1a48e90 | Gender matters everywhere in the world. And I would like today to ask what we begin to dream about and plan for a different world. A fairer world. A world of happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: We must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e9eeefa | We define masculinity in very narrow way. Masculinity is hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage. We teach boys to be afraid of fear, of weakness, of vulnerability. We teach them to mask their true selves, because they have to be, in Nigerian-speak-- a hard man. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| ee26280 | Aunty Ifeoma came the next day, in the evening, when the orange trees started to cast long, wavy shadows across the water fountain in the front yard. Her laughter floated upstairs into the living room, where I sat reading. I had not heard it in two years, but I would know that cackling, hearty sound anywhere. Aunty Ifeoma was as tall as Papa, with a well-proportioned body. She walked fast, like one who knew just where she was going and what.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 61a5943 | Besides, humility had always seemed to him a specious thing, invented for the comfort of others; you were praised for humility by people because you did not make them feel any more lacking than they already did. It was honesty that he valued; he had always wished himself to be truly honest, and always feared that he was not. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 6ee8e58 | 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. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 2781629 | feminism. If anything, it makes us see the extent of the problem, the successful reach of patriarchy. It shows us, too, that not all women are feminists and not all men are misogynists. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 06c3558 | So, do you plan to go to Aokpe?" Father Amadi asked. "I was not really planning to. But I suppose we will have to go now, I will find out the next apparition date." "People are making this whole apparition thing up. Didn't they say Our Lady was appearing at Bishop Shanahan Hospital the other time? And then that she was appearing in Transekulu?" Obiora asked. "Aokpe is different. It has all the signs of Lourdes," Amaka said. "Besides, it's .. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 48f6fcf | It had become a routine of Ifemelu's visits: Aunty Uju collected all her dissatisfactions in a silk purse, nursing them, polishing them, and then on the Saturday of Ifemelu's visit, while Bartholomew was out and Dike upstairs, she would spill them out on the table, and turn each one this way and that, to catch the light. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 7a4c0eb | What I've noticed being here is that many English people are in awe of America but also deeply resent it," Obinze added. "Perfectly true," Phillip said, nodding at Obinze. "Perfectly true. It's the resentment of a parent whose child has become far more beautiful and with a far more interesting life." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 5b878f5 | We do a great disservice to boys in how we raise them. We stifle the humanity of boys. We define masculinity in a narrow way. Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage. We teach boys to be afraid of fear, of weakness, of vulnerability. We teach them to mask their true selves, because they have to be, in Nigerian-speak--a . | masculinity | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 38cf913 | El problema del genero es que prescribe como 'tenemos que ser', en vez de reconocer como somos realmente. Imaginese lo felices que seriamos, lo libres que seriamos siendo quienes somos en realidad, sin sufrir la carga de las expectativas de genero. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| bfaa922 | At the checkout, the blond cashier asked, "Did anybody help you?" "Yes," Ginika said. "Chelcy or Jennifer?" "I'm sorry, I don't remember her name." Ginika looked around, to point at her helper, but both young women had disappeared into the fitting rooms at the back. "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 cas.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 90c5194 | Ukamaka watched him and thought how much more subdued Catholic Masses were in America; how in Nigeria it would have been a vibrant green branch from a mango tree that the priest would dip in a bucket of holy water held by a hurrying, sweating Mass-server; how he would have stridden up and down, splashing and swirling, holy water raining down; how the people would have been drenched; and how, smiling and making the sign of the cross, they wo.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 12a341f | Ifemelu bristled at Chetachi's goading. Still, it was her mother's fault, to so eagerly tell the neighbors her mentor story. She should not have; it was nobody's business what Aunty Uju did. Ifemelu had overheard her telling somebody in the backyard, "You see, The General wanted to be a doctor when he was young, and so now he helps young doctors, God is really using him in people's lives." And she sounded sincere, cheerful, convincing. She .. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 57d57f9 | There are people who say, 'Well, your name is also about patriarchy because it is your father's name.' Indeed. But the point is simply this: whether it came from my father or from the moon, it is the name that I have had since I was born, the name with which I travelled my life's milestones, the name I have answered to since the first day I went to kindergarten in Nsukka on a hazy morning and my teacher said, 'Answer "present" if you hear y.. | last-name name name-changes patriarchy | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 7276b38 | The urge to be contrarian was strong. If she set herself apart, perhaps she would be less of the person she feared she had become. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 6431f19 | Feminism Lite uses the language of 'allowing'. Theresa May is the British prime minister and here is how a progressive British newspaper described her husband: 'Philip May is known in politics as a man who has taken a back seat and allowed his wife, Theresa, to shine.' Allowed. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 50d09ab | only just emerged from a crush on Abe in her ethics class, Abe who was white, Abe who liked her well enough, who thought her smart and funny, even attractive, but who did not see her as female. She was curious about Abe, interested in Abe, but all the flirting she did was, to him, merely niceness: Abe would hook her up with his black friend, if he had a black friend. She was invisible to Abe. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 3dc305b | Robert Hayden | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b8d3de2 | She wished, fleetingly, that her mother was not her mother, and for this she felt not guilt and sadness but a single emotion, a blend of guilt and sadness. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| dcce6c5 | Feminism nd femininity is not mutually exclusive. | feminist | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| befe1cf | he tried to preach to the boy's mother, but she looked at him as if he were a child who did not know any better. There was something troublingly assertive about her, something he had seen in many women here; | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
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| 56147ff | Si hacemos algo una y otra vez, acaba siendo normal. Si vemos la misma cosa una y otra vez, acaba siendo normal.>> | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 296951b | Si hacemos algo una y otra vez, acaba siendo normal. Si vemos la misma cosa una y otra vez, acaba siendo normal | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e37b429 | La persona mas cualificada para ser lider ya no es la persona con mas fuerza fisica. Es la mas inteligente, la que tiene mas conocimientos, la mas creativa o la mas innovadora. Y para estos atributos no hay hormonas. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 9fefe60 | Una mujer puede ser igual de inteligente, innovadora y creativa que un hombre. Hemos evolucionado. En cambio, nuestras ideas sobre el genero no han evolucionado mucho. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 3963f1f | La rabia tiene una larga historia de propiciar cambios positivos. Y ademas de rabia, tambien tengo esperanza, porque creo firmemente en la capacidad de los seres humanos para reformularse a si mismos para mejor. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 041f916 | El mundo entero esta lleno de articulos de revistas y libros que les dicen a las mujeres que tienen que hacer, como tienen que ser y como no tienen que ser si quieren atraer o complacer a los hombres. Hay muchas menos guias para ensenar a los hombres a complacer a las mujeres. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| d66210e | Criamos a las mujeres para que se vean las unas a las otras como competidoras, y no por puestos de trabajo ni logros personales, que es algo que en mi opinion podria ser bueno, sino por la atencion de los hombres. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 6b59645 | Ensenamos a las chicas a tener verguenza. "Cierra las piernas." "Tapate." Les hacemos sentir que, por el hecho de nacer mujeres, ya son culpables de algo. Y lo que sucede es que las chicas se convierten en mujeres que no pueden decir que experimentan deseo." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 5f09f21 | Proof by analogy is fraud. | Bjarne Stroustrup | ||
| 511b307 | La cultura no hace a la gente. La gente hace la cultura. Si es verdad que no forma parte de nuestra cultura el hecho de que las mujeres sean seres humanos de pleno derecho, entonces podemos y debemos cambiar nuestra cultura. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| dfaae80 | La definicion que doy yo es que feminista es todo aquel hombre o mujer que dice: "Si, hay un problema con la situacion de genero hoy en dia y tenemos que solucionarlo, tenemos que mejorar las cosas." Y tenemos que mejorarlas entre todos, hombres y mujeres." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| f731b0d | Si hacemos algo una y otra vez, acaba siendo normal. Si vemos la misma cosa una y otra vez, acaba siendo normal. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
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Si hacemos algo una y otra vez, acaba siendo normal. Si vemos la misma cosa una y otra vez, acaba siendo normal. Si solo los chicos llegan a monitores de clase, al final llegara el momento en que pensemos, aunque sea de forma inconsciente, que el monitor de la clase tiene que ser un chico. Si solo vemos a hombres presidiendo empresas, empezara a parecernos < |
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| 220a4cd | And speaking of women lamenting about men who "promise" marriage and then disappear--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. So many women are in long-term relationships and want to get married but have to wait for the man to propose--and often this waiting becomes a perfo.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |