Sometimes she worried that she was too happy. . . And her joy would become a restless thing, flapping its wings inside her, as though looking for an opening to fly away.
Si solo vemos a hombres presidiendo empresas, empezará a parecernos «natural» que solo haya hombres presidentes de empresas.
Si hacemos algo una y otra vez, acaba siendo normal. Si vemos la misma cosa una y otra vez, acaba siendo normal. Si solo los chicos llegan a monitores de clase, al final llegará el momento en que pens...
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.
Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage.
Later, she said, I have to take my braids out for my interviews and relax my hair. Kemi told me that I shouldn’t wear braids to the interview. If you have braids, they will think you are unprofessiona...
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...
It was the exaggerated gratitude that came with immigrant insecurity.
Ifemelu would also come to learn that, for Kimberly, the poor were blameless. Poverty was a gleaming thing; she could not conceive of poor people being vicious or nasty because their poverty had canon...
If she sees you reading, she will understand that reading is valuable.
I meant to say I am sorry Papa broke your figurines, but the words that came out were, ‘I’m sorry your figurines broke, Mama.
I matter. I matter equally. Not ‘if only’. Not ‘as long as’. I matter equally. Full stop.
I lived in Boston until last year, he said, in a falsely low-key way, because Boston was code for Harvard (otherwise he would say MIT or Tufts or anywhere else), just as another woman said, I was in N...
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.
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. The
His optimism blinded her. He was full of plans. I have an idea! he said often. She imagined him as a child surrounded by too many brightly colored toys, always being encouraged to carry out projects,...
Her first love, her first love, the only person with whom she had never felt the need to explain herself.