They tell us race is an invention, that there is no genetic variation between two black people than there is between a black person and a white person. Then they tell us black people have a worse kind...
But race is not biology; race is sociology. Race is not genotype; race is phenotype. Race matters because of racism. And racism is absurd because it’s about how you look. Not about the blood you have....
Charming, was what one of the girls said later: Your boyfriend is so charming. And the thought occurred to Ifemelu that she did not like charm. Not Curt’s kind, with its need to dazzle, to perform. Sh...
I was not worried at all—it had not even occurred to me to be worried, because a man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in.
Puzzled him that she did not mourn all the things she could have been. Was it a quality inherent in women, or did they just learn to shield their personal regrets, to suspend their lives, subsume them...
Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage.
She was a literal person who did not read, she was content rather than curious about the world.
There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.
She had a formidable air; a person who went about setting everyone and everything right in the world.
Brought with it amorphous longings, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living,
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...
We have fried chicken in common? Do you realize how loaded fried chicken is as a metaphor here?
Papa said that the parish priest in Abba was not spiritual enough. That was the problem with our people, Papa told us, our priorities were wrong; we cared too much about huge church buildings and migh...
She always chose peace over truth,
O olhar masculino, como determinante das escolhas da minha vida, não me interessa.
Hon misstänkte alltid att han hade rätt.
Because it was best if things were simply left at splendid.
I am trying to unlearn many lessons of gender I internalized while growing up. But I sometimes still feel vulnerable in the face of gender expectations.
Marriage can be a good thing, a source of joy, love, and mutual support. But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage, but we don’t teach boys to do the same?
How can you love somebody and yet want to manage the amount of happiness that person is allowed?
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