There are slightly more women than men in the world—52 percent of the world’s population is female—but most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The late Kenyan Nobel peace laur...
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 problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing who we are.
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are.
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t h...
The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative.
The other day Marcia was talking about how black women are fat because their bodies are sites of anti-slavery resistance. Yes, that’s true, if burgers and sodas are anti-slavery resistance.
The only reason you say that race was not an issue is because you wish it was not. We all wish it was not. But it’s a lie. I came from a country where race was not an issue; I did not think of myself...
The late Kenyan Nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said, the higher you go, the fewer women there are.
The knowledge of cooking does not come pre-installed in a vagina.
So you say. A woman with children and no husband, what is that? Me.
So instead of teaching Chizalum to be likeable, teach her to be honest. And kind. And brave. Encourage her to speak her mind, to say what she really thinks, to speak truthfully. And then praise her wh...
Si no les ponemos a nuestros hijos la camisa de fuerza de los roles de género les dejamos espacio para que alcancen su máximo potencial.
Show her that she does not need to be liked by everyone. Tell her that if someone does not like her, there will be someone else who will. Teach her that she is not merely an object to be liked or disl...
She was struck by how mostly slim white people got off at the stops in Manhattan and, as the train went further into Brooklyn, the people left were mostly black and fat. She had not thought of them as...
She wanted to interrupt and tell him how unnecessary it was, this bloodying and binding, this turning faith into a pugilistic exercise; to tell him that life was a struggle with ourselves more than wi...
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 recognized in Kelsey the nationalism of liberal Americans who copiously criticized America but did not like you to do so; they