He told you that the company he worked for had offered him a few thousand more than the average salary plus stock options because they were desperately trying to look diverse.
He spent too much time mourning what could have been and questioning what should be.
He blamed her for making him a person who was not entirely in control of what he was feeling.
Grief was the celebration of love, those who could feel real grief were lucky to have loved.
Gender matters everywhere in the world. And I would like today to ask that we should begin to dream about and plan for a different world. A fairer world. A world of happier men and happier women who a...
Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry.
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.
Eu sorrira, correra, rira. Meu peito estava repleto de alguma coisa parecida com espuma de banho. Leve. A leveza era tão doce que eu podia sentir seu gosto na língua, tinha a doçura de um caju maduro,...
Do you usually decide what answers you will believe before you do an interview?
Cada mañana despertaba aletargada, lastrada por la tristeza, asustada por el interminable día que se extendía ante ella. Todo se había espesado. Estaba sumergida, perdida, en una bruma viscosa, envuel...
CHAPTER 1 Princeton, in the summer, smelled of nothing, and although Ifemelu liked the tranquil greenness of the many trees, the clean streets and stately homes, the delicately overpriced shops, and t...
C'est étrange, à chaque événement majeur dans ma vie, j'ai toujours pensé que tu étais la seule personne qui puisse me comprendre.
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 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. She did not tell him this,...
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 by far the worst thing we do to males—by making them feel they have to be hard—is that we leave them with fragile egos. The a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is. And then we do a m...
But Emenike resumed talking, gesturing, his movements fluid and sure, his manner still that of a person convinced they knew things that other people would never know.
Being defiant can be a good thing sometimes, Aunty Ifeoma said. Defiance is like marijuana - it is not a bad thing when it is used right.
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.
Aunty Ifeoma was silent as she ladled the thick cocoyam paste into the soup pot; then she looked up and said Papa-Nnukwu was not a heathen but a traditionalist, that sometimes what was different was j...