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| f6b17aa | Jewish guy did not know this, but 'oppression olympics' is what smart liberal Americans say, to make you feel stupid and to make you shut up. | ideology liberalism oppression politics racism racism-in-america | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 619f476 | She would not place her memory on things that strangers could barge in and take away. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b0a9be3 | dijo que era la exagerada gratitud derivada de la inseguridad del inmigrante. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 9a3c6a8 | I am angry. We all should be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 3919f9f | Nigerian women came to America and became wild, Igbo Massachusetts Accountant wrote in one post; it was an unpleasant truth but one that had to be said. What else accounted for the high divorce rates among Nigerians in America and the low rates among Nigerians in Nigeria? Delta Mermaid replied that women simply had laws protecting them in America and the divorce rates would be just as high if those laws were in Nigeria. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 0f29e28 | she feared that marriage would flatten it to a prosaic partnership. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 4cee5cf | Love was a kind of grief. This was what the novelists meant by suffering. She had often thought it a little silly, the idea of suffering for love, but now she understood. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 49fd107 | Or maybe we all have eccentricity in us, we just don't have the money to show it? | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e269df4 | We teach girls shame. Close your legs. Cover yourself. We make them feel as though by being born female, they are already guilty of something. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 080f153 | When you visit the home of an American with some money, they will offer to show you their house. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 1516e86 | but it was the commercials that captivated her. She ached for the lives they showed, lives full of bliss, where all problems had sparkling solutions in shampoos and cars and packaged foods, and in her mind they became the real America, | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 13bf3ef | Cada manana despertaba aletargada, lastrada por la tristeza, asustada por el interminable dia que se extendia ante ella. Todo se habia espesado. Estaba sumergida, perdida, en una bruma viscosa, envuelta en una sopa de nada. Entre ella y lo que deberia sentir habia un abismo. No le interesaba nada. Deseaba interesarse, pero ya no sabia como hacerlo; habia escapado de su memoria, la capacidad de interesarse. A veces despertaba temblorosa y de.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 3ff59f2 | I'm going on. Life is the same,' he told Kainene. 'I should be reacting; things should be different. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 8d34cef | Feminismo y feminidad no se excluyen mutuamente. Es misogino sugerir lo contrario. Por desgracia, las mujeres han aprendido a avergonzarse y disculparse de los intereses que tradicionalmente se consideran femeninos, tales como la moda y el maquillaje. Pero nuestra sociedad no espera que los hombres se averguencen de los intereses que tradicionalmente se consideran masculinos: los coches deportivos, ciertos deportes profesionales. De igual m.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| df82240 | De kennis van koken is niet van tevoren geinstalleerd in de vagina. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| a637f4a | We call people like Kofi American-African, not African-American, which is what we call our brothers and sisters whose ancestors were slaves. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 5573771 | Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it. Still | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
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Tienen una energia desbordante, de veras, pero me temo que muy poca higiene>>. Le explico que los hausas del norte eran gente muy digna, los igbos eran ariscos y amantes del dinero, y los yorubas eran sobre todo alegres aunque tambien muy aduladores. Los sabados por la noche, al mostrarle a las multitudes vestidas con prendas llamativas que bailaban frente a los toldos callejeros iluminados, le decia: <|
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| faef45a | Yes, we're really about excess in this country, | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 77909eb | STRONG" because that is what black women are supposed to be in America." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 393a457 | Una vez yo estaba hablando de cuestiones de genero y un hombre me dijo "?Por que tienes que hablar como mujer? ?Por que no hablas como ser humano?". Este tipo de preguntas es una forma de silenciar las experiencias concretas de una persona. Por supuesto que soy un ser humano, pero hay cosas concretas que me pasan a mi en el mundo por el hecho de ser mujer. Y aquel mismo hombre, por cierto, hablaba a menudo de su experiencia como hombre negr.. | feminism feminismo women-s-rights | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 076794a | She had not merely been attracted to him, she had been arrested by him and in her mind he had become the perfect partner she would never have | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 29f1bea | If we do something over and over again, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over again, 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. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e9d82f6 | 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 likeable. 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. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| a0a4999 | We are living in a time of great white evil. They are dehumanizing blacks in South Africa and Rhodesia, they fermented what happened in the Congo, they won't let American blacks vote, they won't let the Australian aborigines vote, but the worst of all is what they are doing here. This defense pact is worse than apartheid and segregation, but we don't realize it. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| bb4c1a1 | They laughed and she sensed, between them, a vulgar and delicious female bond. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| ca696f3 | Grandpapa used to say, about difficulties he had gone through, 'It did not kill me, it made me knowledgeable.'O gburo m egbu, o mee ka m malu ife. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 8a59644 | There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable," Kainene said. There was a pause. Inside Olanna, something calcified leaped to life." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| c19c15f | Sometimes I hate them," Kainene said. "The vandals." "No, them." Kainene pointed back at the room. "I hate them for dying." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| a215707 | For a moment, her breath stalled, and then she laughed, a dizzying, exhilarating laugh, because her life had become a charmed film in which people found each other again. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 7bb36d9 | He missed her, a longing that tore deep into him. He resented her. He wondered endlessly what might have happened. He changed, curled more inwardly into himself. He was, by turns, inflamed by anger, twisted by confusion, withered by sadness. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 080a3b2 | He had to be an academic, but not in the humanities or he would be more self-conscious. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 573db67 | 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 | ||
| 6c91c9a | He was fired for refusing to call his new boss Mummy. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 6549a0b | I meant to say I am sorry Papa broke your figurines, but the words that came out were, 'I'm sorry your figurines broke, Mama. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 86a27db | Do you want to go to Nsukka?' I asked when we got to the landing. 'Yes,' he said, and his eyes said that he knew I did, too. And I could not find the words in our eye language to tell him how my throat tightened at the thought of five days without Papa's voice, without his footsteps on the stairs. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| cbd9967 | puzzled him that she did not mourn all the things she could have been. Was it a quality inherent in women, or did they just learn to shield their personal regrets, to suspend their lives, subsume themselves in child care? She | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 199b6f1 | 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. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| f3e040f | Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 3013fa7 | 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. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 856665a | To love is not only to give but also to take | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b064796 | Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost. | Bjarne Stroustrup | ||
| 7d02273 | INTRODUCTION TO GENDER AND SOCIETY The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir A classic analysis of the Western conception of the woman. Feminism Is for Everybody by bell hooks A primer about the power and potential of feminist action. We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Feminism redefined for the twenty-first century. QUEER THEORY AND INTERSECTIONAL FEMINISM Gender Trouble by Judith Butler A classic, and groundbreaking, text a.. | Tom Perrotta |