749 Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

La definición que doy yo es que feminista es todo aquel hombre o mujer que dice: "Sí, hay un problema con la situación de género hoy en día y tenemos que solucionarlo, tenemos que mejorar las cosas."Y tenemos que mejorarlas entre todos, hombres y mujeres.

Si hacemos algo una y otra vez, acaba siendo normal. Si vemos la misma cosa una y otra vez, acaba siendo normal.

What if the parents, from the beginning, taught both children to cook Indomie? Cooking, by the way, is a useful and practical life skill for a boy to have—I’ve neverthought it made much sense to leave such a crucial thing—the ability to nourish oneself—in the hands of others.

I often wear clothes that men don’t like or don’t “understand.” I wear thembecause I like them and because I feel good in them. The “male gaze,” as a shaper of mylife’s choices, is largely incidental.

These Nigerianshave been raised to think of women as inherently guilty. And they have been raised toexpect so little of men that the idea of men as savage beings with no self-control issomehow acceptable.

My owndeɹnition is a feminist is a man or a woman who says, yes, there’s a problem withgender as it is today and we must ɹx it, we must do better. All of us, women and men,must do better.

He turned to her and said, “About time,” when the train finally creaked in, with the familiarity strangers adopt with each other after sharing in the disappointment of a public service.

They are always so quiet," he said, turning to Papa. "So quiet.""They are not like those loud children people are raising these days, with no home training and no fear of God," Papa said, and I was certain that it was pride that stretched Papa's lips and lightened his eyes."Imagine what the Standard would be if we were all quiet." It was a joke. Ade Coker was laughing; so was his wife, Yewanda. But Papa did not laugh. Jaja and I turned and went back upstairs, silently.

¿Es amor esta necesidad irracional de tenerte junto a mí la mayor parte del tiempo? ¿Es amor la seguridad que siento durante los silencios que compartimos? ¿Lo es esta sensación de pertenencia, esta plenitud?