Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable, Kainene said. There was a pause. Inside Olanna, something calcified leaped to life.

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

You can't even read American fiction to get a sense of how actual life is lived these days. You read American fiction to learn about dysfunctional white folk doing things that are weird to normal whit...

You know it was love at first sight for both of us, he said.

If we don't place the straitjacket of gender roles on young children, we give them space to reach their full potential.

You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me? Aunty Ifeka said. Your life belongs to you and you alone.

I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most tell me are 'unbelievable' are those that are most closely based on the real, those leas...

Teach her to question men who can have empathy for women only if they see them as relational rather than as individual equal humans.

Teach her to question men who can have empathy for women only if they seem them as relational rather than as individual equal humans. Men who, when discussing rape, will always say something like 'if...

Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations.

Feminism nd femininity is not mutually exclusive.

Teach her about difference. Make difference ordinary. Make difference normal. Teach her not to attach value to difference. And the reason for this is not to be fair or to be nice but merely to be huma...

There were emotions she wanted to hold in the palm of her hand that were simply no longer there.

I went to Temple?

They probably don't really like pale skin but they certainly like walking into a store without some security dude following them. Hating Your Goy and Eating One Too, as the great Philip Roth put it. S...

There's something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You've never even accepted that the man was ugly.

She seemed so happy, so at peace, and I wondered how anybody around me could feel that way when liquid fire was raging inside me, when fear was mingling with hope and clutching itself around my ankles...

Try more strategy and less force. Passion never wins any game, never mind what they say. He said something similar now: Excuses don’t win a game. You should try strategy.

Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general--but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretendin...

There was something in him, lighter than ego but darker than insecurity, that needed constant buffing, polishing, waxing.