Why should a woman’s success be a threat to a man? What if we decide to simply dispose of that word—and I don’t know if there is an English word I dislike more than this—emasculation.
Why should a woman’s success be a threat to a man?
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 general—but to choo...
Why were we raised to speak in low tones about periods? To be filled with shame if our menstrual blood happened to stain our skirt? Periods are nothing to be ashamed of. Periods are normal and natural...
With him, she felt breakable, precious.
Yes, but I’m worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school, a friend of a friend, and just listening to her talk is scary. The semiotic dial...
Yet such men do not need to imagine a male victim of crime as a brother or son in order to feel empathy.
You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.
You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.
You know America has a way of turning everything into an illness that needs medicine.
You know, we live in an ass-licking economy. The biggest problem in this country is not corruption. The problem is that there are many qualified people who are not where they are supposed to be becaus...
You wanted to feel disdain, to show it as you brought his order, because white people who liked Africa too much and those who liked Africa too little were the same—condescending.
Your life belongs to you and you alone.
A clear link between education and dignity, between the hard, obvious things that are printed in books and the soft, subtle things that lodge themselves into the soul.
About what boys think of them. But the reverse is not the case. We don’t teach boys to care about being likeable. We spend too much time telling girls that they cannot be angry or aggressive or tough,...
Did not talk to people, they instead talked at people,
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.
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,
Her skin felt as though it was her right size.
His mind had not changed at the same pace as his life, and he felt a hollow space between himself and the person he was supposed to be. He
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