749 Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

What is the point of culture? Culture functions ultimately to ensure the preservation and continuity of a people.

She was used to this, being grabbed by men who walked around in a cloud of cologne-drenched entitlement, with the presumption that, because they were powerful and found her beautiful, they belonged together.

If we keep seeing only men as heads of corporations, it starts to seem “natural” that only men should be heads of corporations.

Grief was the celebration of love, those who could feel real grief were lucky to have loved.

Of course much of this was tongue-in-cheek, but what it shows is how that word feminist is so heavy with baggage, negative baggage: you hate men, you hate bras, you hate African culture, you think women should always be in charge, you don’t wear make-up, you don’t shave, you’re always angry, you don’t have a sense of humour, you don’t use deodorant.

Yet such men do not need to imagine a male victim of crime as a brother or son in order to feel empathy.

But she was uncomfortable with what the professors called ‘participation,’ and did not see why it should be part of the final grade; it merely made students talk and talk, class time wasted on obvious words, hollow words, sometimes meaningless words.

We police girls. We praise girls for virginity but we don’t praise boys for virginity.

It does not have to mean a literal fifty-fifty or a day-by-day score-keeping, but you’ll know when the child-care work is equally shared. You’ll know by your lack of resentment. Because when there is true equality, resentment does not exist. And.