749 Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It’s a novel, right? What’s it about?” Why did people ask “What is it about?” as if a novel had to be about only one thing.

What if, in raising children, we focus on ability instead of gender? What if we focus on interest instead of gender?

These are little things but sometimes it’s the little things that sting the most.

We never actively remember death,′ Odenigbo said. The reason we live as we do is because we do not remember that we will die. We will all die.

She was standing at the periphery of her own life, sharing a fridge and a toilet, a shallow intimacy, with people she did not know at all. People who lived in exclamation points.

Isn’t it odd that in most societies in the world today, women generally cannot propose marriage? Marriage is such a major step in your life, and yet you cannot take charge of it; it depends on a man asking you.

There’s something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You’ve never even accepted that the man was ugly.

She began to like him because he liked her.

If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over, it becomes normal. If only boys are made class monitor, then at some point we will all think, even if unconsciously, that the class monitor has to be a boy. If we keep seeing only men as heads of corporations, it starts to seem “natural” that only men should be heads of corporations.