Una mujer puede ser igual de inteligente, innovadora y creativa que un hombre. Hemos evolucionado. En cambio, nuestras ideas sobre el género no han evolucionado mucho.
Um homem pobre ainda tem os privilégios de ser homem, mesmo que não tenha o privilégio da riqueza.
This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.
This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.
They themselves mocked Africa, trading stories of absurdity, of stupidity, and they felt safe to mock, because it was a mockery born of longing, and of the heartbroken desire to see a place made whole...
These are little things but sometimes it's the little things that sting the most.
There must be more than male benevolence as the basis for a woman's well-being.
Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.
Their silence was full of stones. Ifemelu felt like apologizing, although she was not quite sure what she would be apologizing for.
The wind blowing across the British Isles was odorous with fear of asylum seekers, infecting everybody with the panic of impending doom, and so articles were written and read, simply and stridently, a...
The trick was to understand America, to know that America was give-and-take. You gave up a lot but you gained a lot, too.
The sad truth of the matter is that when it comes to appearance, we start off with men as the standard, as the norm. Many of us think that the less feminine a woman appears, the more likely she is to...
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are.
The only race that matters is the human race.
Tell Chizalum that women actually don't need to be championed and revered; they just need to be treated as equal human beings.
Teach her to reject likeability. Her job is not to make herself likeable, her job is to be her full self, a self that is honest and aware of the equal humanity of other people.
Some people ask, 'Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?' Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in...
She said she should not have been slapped because she is a full human being, not because she doesn’t have a husband to speak for her.
She had seen that look before, on the faces of white women, strangers on the street, who would see her hand clasped in Curt's and instantly cloud their faces with that look. The look of people confron...
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