Even though you would like to be able to decide for yourself how offended to be, or whether to be offended at all, you must nevertheless be very offended.
Enseñamos a las chicas a tener vergüenza. Cierra las piernas. Tápate. Les hacemos sentir que, por el hecho de nacer mujeres, ya son culpables de algo. Y lo que sucede es que las chicas se convierten e...
El problema del género es que prescribe cómo 'tenemos que ser', en vez de reconocer cómo somos realmente. Imagínese lo felices que seríamos, lo libres que seríamos siendo quienes somos en realidad, si...
Don't think that raising her feminist means forcing her to reject femininity. Feminism and femininity are not exclusive.
Defiance is like marijuana—it is not a bad thing when it is used right. The
But she had not had a bold epiphany and there was no cause; it was simply that layer after layer of discontent had settled in her, and formed a mass that now propelled her.
But here is a sad truth: Our world is full of men and women who do not like powerful women. We have been so conditioned to think of power as male that a powerful woman is an aberration. And so she is...
But Nature is unfair to women. An act is done by two people, but if there are any consequences, one person carries it alone.
Blaine needed what she was unable to give and she needed what he was unable to give, and she grieved this, the loss of what could have been. So
Being a feminist is like being pregnant. You either are or you are not. You either believe in the full equality of men and women or you do not.
Because I am female, I’m expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important.
Até que enfim quando o trem finalmente chegou rangendo, com aquela familiaridade que os estranhos adotam uns com os outros depois de compartilhar a decepção com um serviço público.
At the checkout, the blond cashier asked, Did anybody help you? Yes, Ginika said. Chelcy or Jennifer? I’m sorry, I don’t remember her name. Ginika looked around, to point at her helper, but both young...
And never say that Chudi is babysitting - people who babysit are people for whom the baby is not a primary responsibility.
And have your white friend say how funny it is, that American pollsters ask white and black people if racism is over. White people in general say it is over and black people in general say it is not....
Americans will smile at you and be extremely friendly but if your name is not Cory or Chad, they make no effort at saying it properly. The Brits will be surly and will be suspicious if you’re too frie...
Allow is a troubling word. Allow is about power. You will often hear members of the Nigerian chapter of the Society of Feminism Lite say, Leave the woman alone to do what she wants as long as her husb...
All of us look alike to white people, Aunty Uju said.
A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves
A precious performance, Blaine had called it, in that gently forbearing tone he used when they talked about novels, as though he was sure that she, with a little more time and a little more wisdom, wo...