They had both wanted it to happen and they both wished it had not; what mattered now was that nobody else should ever know.
There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.
The urge to be contrarian was strong. If she set herself apart, perhaps she would be less of the person she feared she had become.
The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative. And there are no hormones for those att...
The knowledge of cooking does not come pre-installed in a vagina. Cooking is learned.
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...
Teach her to question language. Language is the repository of our prejudices, our beliefs, our assumptions.
So if you're going to write about race, you have to make sure it's so lyrical and subtle that the reader who doesn't read between the lines won't even know it's about race.
Si hacemos algo una y otra vez, acaba siendo normal. Si vemos la misma cosa una y otra vez, acaba siendo normal.
She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.
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.
She looked away, worried that the crush of emotions she had felt while he was speaking would now converge on her face. Of course you don’t. You like your life, she said. I live my life. Oh, how myster...
Philip May is known in politics as a man who has taken a back seat and allowed his wife, Theresa, to shine. Allowed. Now let us reverse it. Theresa May has allowed her husband to shine. Does it make s...
Philadelphia had the musty scent of history. New Haven smelled of neglect. Baltimore smelled of brine, and Brooklyn of sun-warmed garbage. But Princeton had no smell.
People were flattered to be asked about themselves and if she said nothing after they spoke, it made them say more. They were conditioned to fill silences.
O olhar masculino, como determinante das escolhas da minha vida, não me interessa.
Nwunye m, sometimes life begins when marriage ends. You and your university talk. Is this what you tell your students? Mama was smiling. Seriously, yes. But they marry earlier and earlier these days....
Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage.
Later Ginika said, You could have just said Ngozi is your tribal name and Ifemelu is your jungle name and throw in one more as your spiritual name. They’ll believe all kinds of shit about Africa
It was what Aunty Ifeoma did to my cousins, I realized then, setting higher and higher jumps for them in the way she talked to them, in what she expected of them. She did it all the time believing the...