He said, 'Ifemelu is a fine babe bu she is too much trouble. She can argue. She can talk. She never agrees. But Ginika is just a sweet gil.' He paused, then added, He didn't know that was exactly what...
He spent too much time mourning what could have been and questioning what should be.
He used to make me feel that nothing I said was witty enough or sarcastic enough or smart enough. He was always struggling to be different, even when it didn’t matter. It was as if he was performing h...
He was left-leaning and well-meaning, crippled by his acknowledgement of his own many privileges. He never allowed himself to have an opinion. 'Yes, I see what you mean,' he said often.
He was making her feel small and absurdly petulant and, worse yet, she suspected he was right. She always suspected he was right. For a brief irrational moment, she wished she could walk away from him...
He was no longer sure, he had in fact never been sure, whether he liked his life because he really did or whether he liked it because he was supposed to.
Her bladder felt painfully, solidly full, as though it would burst and release not urine but the garbled prayers she was muttering.
How was it possible to miss something you longer wanted? 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.
How was it possible to miss something you no longer wanted? 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.
Háblale sobre la diferencia. Convierte la diferencia en habitual. Haz normal la diferencia. Enséñale a que valore la diferencia. Y no es para que sea justa o buena, sino simplemente para que sea human...
I am an agnostic respecter of religion.
I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.
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. I like politics and history and am happiest when having a good arg...
I know that they don't intend harm, but it is one thing to know something intellectually and quite another to feel it.
I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is just as obvious to everyone else.
I often wear clothes that men don’t like or don’t understand. I wear thembecause I like them and because I feel good in them. The male gaze, as a shaper of mylife’s choices, is largely incidental.
I sat at my bedroom window after I changed; the cashew tree was so close I could reach out and pluck a leaf if it were not for the silver-colour crisscross of mosquito netting. The bell-shaped yellow...
I think love is the most important thing in life. Whatever kind, however you define it, but I think of it generally as being greatly valued by another human being and greatly valuing another human bei...
I was once talking about gender and a man said to me, 'Why does it have to be you as a woman? Why not you as a human being?' This type of question is a way of silencing a person's specific experiences...
I was stained by failure.
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