Her bladder felt painfully, solidly full, as though it would burst and release not urine but the garbled prayers she was muttering.
He had first been excited by Facebook, ghosts of old friends suddenly morphing to life with wives and husbands and children, and photos trailed by comments. But he began to be appalled by the air of u...
Ferdinand had a steely, amoral face; if one examined his hands, the blood of his enemies might be found crusted under his fingernails.
Ensine Chizalum a questionar os homens que só conseguem sentir empatia pelas mulheres dentro de uma rede de relações, e não como indivíduos humanos iguais. Homens que, discutindo o estupro, sempre dir...
Don't see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy.
Does she have a domestic side? Questions we do not ask of powerful men, which shows that our discomfort is not with power itself, but with women. We judge powerful women more harshly than we judge pow...
De kennis van koken is niet van tevoren geïnstalleerd in de vagina.
Both religion and science have spaces for the things we do not know, and it is enough to make peace with that.
Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender, or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender. Because thinking of changing the status quo is always uncomfortable.
Blaine needed what she was unable to give and she needed what he was unable to give, and she grieved this, the loss of what could have been. So
At some point I was a Happy African Feminist Who Does Not Hate Men and Who Likes to Wear Lip Gloss and High Heels for Herself and Not For Men.
Aokpe will always be special because it was the reason Kambili and Jaja first came to Nsukka.
To earn the prize of being taken seriously among Nigerians in America, among Africans in America, indeed among immigrants in America, she needed more years.
She added that academics were not intellectuals; they were not curious, they built their stolid tents of specialized knowledge and stayed securely in them.
Layer after layer of discontent had settled in her, and formed a mass that now propelled her. She
Há certas coisas que acontecem e para as quais não podemos formular um porquê, para as quais os porquês simplesmente não existem e para as quais, talvez, eles não sejam necessários
He tried to preach to the boy’s mother, but she looked at him as if he were a child who did not know any better. There was something troublingly assertive about her, something he had seen in many wome...
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.
Did not talk to people, they instead talked at people,
Course it was angry. Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry.