Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

Gender matters everywhere in the world. And I would like today to ask that we begin to dream about and plan for a different world. A fairer world. A world of happier men and happier women who are true...

Do you want to go to Nsukka?’ I asked when we got to the landing. ‘Yes,’ he said, and his eyes said that he knew I did, too. And I could not find the words in our eye language to tell him how my throa...

And never say that Chudi is babysitting - people who babysit are people for whom the baby is not a primary responsibility.

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.

I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femininity. And I want to be respected in all my femaleness. Because I deserve to be.

She added that academics were not intellectuals; they were not curious, they built their stolid tents of specialized knowledge and stayed securely in them.

She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself. With him, she was at ease; her skin felt as though it was...

Hair away from her face, as though one hand could not possibly tame all that hair. How nice to meet you, she said to Ifemelu, smiling, as they shook hands, her hand small,

I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femininity. And I want to be respected in all my femaleness.

I just want to be regular.

Racism is about the power of a group and in America it’s white folks who have that power. How? Well, white folks don’t get treated like shit in upper-class African-American communities and white folks...

And so girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. Who silence themselves. Who cannot say what they truly think. Who have turned pretence into an art form. I

When you visit the home of an American with some money, they will offer to show you their house.

Pillow on

Impossible, he said, and switched to Igbo. Ama m atu inu. I even know proverbs. Yes. The basic one everybody knows. A frog does not run in the afternoon for nothing. No. I know serious proverbs. Akota...

In Feminism Lite, that men are naturally superior but should be expected to ‘treat women well’. No. No. No. There must be more than male benevolence as the basis for a woman’s well-being. Feminism Lit...

With him, she felt breakable, precious.

IFEMELU HAD GROWN UP in the shadow of her mother’s hair. It was black-black, so thick it drank two containers of relaxer at the salon, so full it took hours under the hooded dryer, and, when finally r...

I thought then of catechism classes, about chanting the answer to a question, an answer that was because he has said it and his word is true. I could not remember the question.

Aokpe will always be special because it was the reason Kambili and Jaja first came to Nsukka.