749 Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I think human beings exist in a social world. I write realistic fiction, and so it isn’t that surprising that the social realities of their existence would be part of the story.

Yes, there’s a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.

How can you love somebody and yet want to manage the amount of happiness that person is allowed?

You can have ambition But not too much You should aim to be successful But not too successful Otherwise you will threaten the man.

If we don’t place the straitjacket of gender roles on young children, we give them space to reach their full potential.

Never apologize for working. You love what you do, and loving what you do is a great gift to give your child.

And I was worried that if I looked too feminine, I would not be taken seriously. I really wanted to wear my shiny lip gloss and my girly skirt, but I decided not to. I wore a very serious, very manly, and very ugly suit.

But Kimberly’s unhappiness was inward, unacknowledged, shielded by her desire for things to be as they should, and also by hope: she believed in other people’s happiness because it meant that she, too, might one day have it. Laura’s unhappiness was different, spiky, she wished that everyone around her were unhappy because she had convinced herself that she would always be.

Olanna felt the slow sadness of missing a person who was still there.