749 Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had recently read a novel called American Psycho,and that it was a shame that young Americans were serial murderers.

Nigerian politics has been, since the military dictatorships, largely non-ideological. Rather than a battle of ideas, it is about who can pump in the most money and buy the most access.

She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself.

I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister calls it my cerebral palsy mouth. I am very much a daddy's girl, and even though I would rather my smile wasn't crooked, there is something moving for me about having a mouth exactly like my father's.

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.

I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.

This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.