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...
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Darkness descended upon him, and when it lifted he knew that he would never see Kainene again and that his life would always be a candlelit room; he would see things only in shadow, only in half glimp...
Do you usually decide what answers you will believe before you do an interview?
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Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it into a prosaic partnership.
Each time they ignore me, I feel invisible. I want to tell them that I am just as human as the man, just as worthy of acknowledgement. These are the little things, but sometimes it is the little thing...
El problema con el género es que prescribe cómo debemos ser, en vez de reconocer cómo somos. Imagina cuánto más felices seríamos, cuánta más libertad tendríamos para ser nosotros mismos, si no tuviése...
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...
Eugene has to stop doing God's job. God is big enough to do his own job. If God will judge our father for choosing to follow the way of our ancestors, then let God do the judging, not Eugene.
Even at ten you knew that some people can take up too much space by simply being, that by existing, some people can stifle others.
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.
Everybody is hungry in this country, even the rich men are hungry, but nobody is honest.
Feminismo y feminidad no se excluyen mutuamente. Es misógino sugerir lo contrario. Por desgracia, las mujeres han aprendido a avergonzarse y disculparse de los intereses que tradicionalmente se consid...
Feminist: a person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes. My
For me, feminism is always contextual.
Grief was the celebration of love, those who could feel real grief were lucky to have loved.
He believed in good omens and positive thoughts and happy endings to films, a trouble-free belief, because he had not considered them deeply before choosing to believe; he just simply believed.
He looked people in the eye not because he was interested in them but because he knew it made them feel that he was interested in them.
He missed her, a longing that tore deep into him. He resented her. He wondered endlessly what might have happened. He changed, curled more inwardly into himself. He was, by turns, inflamed by anger, t...
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