749 Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Because you are a girl is never a reason for anything. Ever.

Never speak of marriage as an achievement.

Our world is full of men and women who do not like powerful women.

Feminism nd femininity is not mutually exclusive.

La triste verdad es que nuestro mundo está repleto de hombres y mujeres a quienes no les gustan las mujeres poderosas. Nos han condicionado tanto con que el poder es masculino que una mujer poderosa nos parece una aberración.

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.

Respect: a starched deference, a string of ashen rituals. It was my mother who sat beside my father at weddings and ceremonies; it was her photo that appeared above the label of “wife” in the booklet his club published in his honor. Respect was her reward for acquiescing.

A man who would be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in.

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.