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.
Sometimes, mothers, so conditioned to be all and do all, are complicit in diminishing the role of fathers.
She had not merely been attracted to him, she had been arrested by him and in her mind he had become the perfect partner she would never have
She did not know what it was but there was something wrong with her. A hunger, a restlessness. An incomplete knowledge of herself. The sense of something farther away, beyond her reach.
She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs.
Periods are normal and natural, and the human species would not be here if periods did not exist.
People often told him how humble he was, but they did not mean real humility, it was merely that he did not flaunt his membership in the wealthy club, did not exercise the rights it brought—to be rude...
Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.
Nu vet jag att inget han gör kommer att förändra mitt liv. Mitt liv kommer bara att förändras om jag vill att det ska förändras.
New Haven smelled of neglect. Baltimore smelled of brine, and Brooklyn of sun-warmed garbage.
Men ras är inte biologi; ras är sociologi. Ras är inte genotyp; ras är fenotyp. Ras är betydelsefullt på grund av rasismen.
It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man.
Into my heart on air that killsFrom yon far country blows:What are those blue remembered hills,What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost contentI see it shining plain,The happy highw...
Ifemelu thought about the expression sweet girl. Sweet girl meant that, for a long time, Don had molded Ranyinudo into a malleable shape, or that she had allowed him to think he had.
If we see the same thing over and over, it becomes normal.
I'm chasing you. I'm going to chase you until you give this a chance.
I should never call myself a feminist since feminists are women who are unhappy because they cannot find husbands.So I decided to call myself a Happy Feminist.
I often wondered why Sister Veronica needed to understand it, when it was simply the way things were done.
I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is just as obvious to everyone else.
I like politics and history and am happiest when having a good argument about ideas.