749 Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

And so girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. Who silence themselves. Who cannot say what they truly think. Who have turned pretence into an art form. I.

I didn’t know I was even supposed to HAVE issues until I came to America.

Sometimes, mothers, so conditioned to be all and do all, are complicit in diminishing the role of fathers.

He realized that what he wanted most of all, with her, was time.

People often told him how humble he was, but they did not mean real humility, it was merely that he did not flaunt his membership in the wealthy club, did not exercise the rights it brought – to be rude, to be inconsiderate, to be greeted rather than to greet – and because so many others like him exercised those rights, his choices were interpreted as humility.

Your feminist premise should be: I matter. I matter equally.

She wanted Azuka to learn the ways of these foreigners, since people ruled over others not because they were better people but because they had better guns;.

It brought to him a disorienting strangeness, because his mind had not changed at the same pace as his life, and he felt a hollow space between himself and the person he was supposed to be.

My advice is that you wait. You can love without making love. It is a beautiful way of showing your feelings but it brings responsibility, great responsibility, and there is no rush.