It was not a physical fatigue—he went to the gym regularly and felt better than he had in years—but a draining lassitude that numbed the margins of his mind. He got up and went out to the verandah; th...
It’s a novel, right? What’s it about? Why did people ask What is it about? as if a novel had to be about only one thing.
It’s true. And they don’t just spend a lot, they expect to spend a lot. I met this guy the other day, and he was telling me how he started his satellite-dish business about twenty years ago. This was...
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 dialectics of...
Just give her one, Ifemelu thought. To overwhelm a child of four with choices, to lay on her the burden of making a decision, was to deprive her of the bliss of childhood. Adulthood, after all, alread...
Just in case this is the last time we hold hands, let’s really hold hands. Because a motorcycle or a car can kill us now, or I might see the real man of my dreams down the street and leave you or you...
Later, when she came to know of the letters he wrote to Congress about Darfur, the teenagers he tutored at the high school on Dixwell, the shelter he volunteered at, she thought of him as a person who...
Les enseñemos a las niñas a sentir vergüenza. ‘Cierra las piernas, cúbrete’. Les hacemos sentir como si por haber nacido mujeres ya fueran culpables de algo. Y así, las niñas crecen y se convierten en...
Let’s have a child, he said again. A little girl just like you, and we will call her Obianuju because she will complete us.
Look, all of them are white women. This one is supposed to be Hispanic, we know this because they wrote two Spanish words here, but she looks exactly like this white woman, no difference in her skin t...
Love was a kind of grief. This was what the novelists meant by suffering. She had often thought it a little silly, the idea of suffering for love, but now she understood.
Make dressing a question of taste and attractiveness instead of a question of morality.
Many girls spend too much time trying to be nice to people who do them harm. Many girls think of the feelings of those who are hurting them. This is the catastrophic consequence of likeability. We hav...
Mariama finished her customer’s hair, sprayed it with sheen, and, after the customer left, she said, I’m going to get Chinese. Aisha and Halima told her what they wanted—General Tso’s Chicken Very Spi...
Mas o pior é que, quando os pressionamos a agir como durões, nós os deixamos com o ego muito frágil. Quanto mais duro um homem acha que deve ser, mais fraco será seu ego. E criamos as meninas de uma m...
Molière’s words came to him, strangely comforting:Unbroken happiness is a bore; it should have ups and downs.
My advice is that you wait. You can love without making love. It is a beautiful way of showing your feelings but it brings responsibility, great responsibility, and there is no rush.
My owndeɹnition is a feminist is a man or a woman who says, yes, there’s a problem withgender as it is today and we must ɹx it, we must do better. All of us, women and men,must do better.
Nature’s first green is gold.
Never apologize for working. You love what you do, and loving what you do is a great gift to give your child.’I find this to be so wise and moving. You don’t even have to love your job; you can merely...
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