749 Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

You Americans, always peering under people’s beds to look for communism.

America’s tribalisms – race, ideology, and region – became clear.

She was too afraid to hope, now that it seemed possible.

Gender and class are different. Poor men still have the privileges of being men, even if they do not have the privileges of being wealthy.

Why do you need so much outside of yourself? Why isn’t what you are enough?

He blamed her for making him a person who was not entirely in control of what he was feeling.

That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out.

Take cooking, for example. Today, women in general are more likely to do housework than men – cooking and cleaning. But why is that? Is it because women are born with a cooking gene or because over years they have been socialized to see cooking as their role?

Look at you. You’re the kindest person I know. Look how beautiful you are. Why do you need so much outside of yourself? Why isn’t what you are enough?