749 Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Some people will say a woman is subordinate to men because its our culture. But culture is constantly changing... culture does not make people, people makes culture.

When I lost my whole family, every single one, it was as if I had been born all over again,” Inatimi told Richard in his quiet way. “I was a new person because I no longer had family to remind me of what I had been.

The sad truth of the matter is that when it comes to appearance, we start off with men as the standard, as the norm. Many of us think that the less feminine a woman appears, the more likely she is to be taken seriously. A man going to a business meeting doesn’t wonder about being taken seriously based on what he is wearing – but a woman does.

Teach her that if you criticize X in women but do not criticize X in men, then you do not have a problem with X, you have a problem with women.

Why should a woman’s success be a threat to a man?

But by far the worst thing we do to males – by making them feel they have to be hard – is that we leave them with very fragile egos. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is.

You don’t even have to love your job; you can merely love what your job does for you – the confidence and self-fulfillment that come with doing and earning.

You know, like race is a brew best served mild, tempered with other liquids, otherwise white folk can’t swallow it.

The man standing closest to her was eating an ice cream cone; she had always found it a little irresponsible, the eating of ice cream cones by grown-up American men, especially the eating of ice cream cones by grown-up American men in public.