749 Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Never speak of marriage as an achievement. Find ways to make clear to her that marriage is not an achievement, nor is it what she should aspire to. A marriage can be happy or unhappy, but it is not an achievement.

How can a person claim to love you and yet want you to do things that suit only them? Udenna was like that.

Tell her that kindness matters. Praise her when she is kind to other people. But teach her that kindness must never be taken for granted. Tell her that she, too, deserves the kindness of others. Teach her to stand up for what is hers. If another child takes her toy without her permission, ask her to take it back, because her consent is important. Tell er that if anything ever makes her uncomfortable, to speak up, to say it, to shout.

Her first love, her first lover, the only person with whom she had never felt the need to explain herself.

When Philip complained about the French couple building a house next to his in Cornwall, Emenike asked, ‘Are they between you and the sunset?

Education is a priority! How can we resist exploitation if we don’t have the tools to understand exploitation?

And I said, Ah correct, there is hope. She reads.

The more civilians you bomb, the more resistance you grow.

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. With him, she was at ease; her skin felt as though it was her right size. She told him how she very much wanted God to exist but feared He did not, how she worried that she should know what she wanted to do with her life but did not.