You know, you’re a feminist. It was not a compliment. I could tell from his tone—the same tone with which a person would say, You’re a supporter of terrorism.
You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.
Why do I love him?...I don't think love has a reason...I think love comes first and then the reasons follow.
When Ifemelu met Obinze, she told Aunty Uju that she had met the love of her life, and Aunty Uju told her to let him kiss and touch but not to let him put it inside
What if, in raising children, we focus on ability instead of gender? What if we focus on interest instead of gender?
What if, in raising children, we focus on ability instead of gender? What if we focus oninterest instead of gender?
We teach females that in relationships, compromise is what a woman is more likely to do.
We teach females that in relationships, compromise is what a woman is more likely to do. We
We teach boys to be afraid of fear, of weakness, of vulnerability. We teach them to mask their true selves,
We raise girls to see each other as competitors – not for jobs or accomplishments, which in my opinion can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual bein...
We have evolved. But our ideas of gender have not evolved very much. Not
Um homem pobre ainda tem os privilégios de ser homem, mesmo que não tenha o privilégio da riqueza.
Ukamaka watched him and thought how much more subdued Catholic Masses were in America; how in Nigeria it would have been a vibrant green branch from a mango tree that the priest would dip in a bucket...
To have money, it seemed, was to be consumed by money.
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...
They have the kinds of things we can eat.' An unease crept up on Ifemelu. She was comfortable here, and she wished she were not. She wished, too, that she were not so interested in this new restaurant...
These are little things but sometimes it's the little things that sting the most.
There were people who were born with an inability to be tangled up in dark emotions, in complications, and Iloba was one of them. For such people, Obinze felt both admiration and boredom.
There was something unquestioning about her roommates’ lives, an assumption of certainty that fascinated her, so that they often said, Let’s go get some, about whatever it was they needed—more beer, p...
There must be more than male benevolence as the basis for a woman's well-being.