We teach girls shame. Close your legs. Cover yourself. We make them feel as though being born female they’re already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have des...
What does it mean to know? Really? Is it knowing-her refusal to think concretely about other women? Her refusal to ever consider the possibility?
What struck me—with her and with many other female American friends I have—is how invested they are in being liked. How they have been raised to believe that their being likable is very important and...
When I lost my whole family, every single one, it was as if I had been born all over again, Inatimi told Richard in his quiet way. I was a new person because I no longer had family to remind me of wha...
When Sister Ibinabo was talking to Christie, with that poisonous spite she claimed was religious guidance, Ifemelu had looked at her and suddenly seen something of her own mother. Her mother was a kin...
Why was nigger bleeped out? I mean, nigger is a word that exists. People use it. It is part of America. It has caused a lot of pain to people and I think it is insulting to bleep it out. ...it's like...
Yes, good. 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 is ugly, Kainene said. There was a sma...
Yes. He’s back at his desk. Blaine paused. I think he expects this sort of thing to happen. That’s the actual tragedy, Ifemelu said, and realized she was using Blaine’s own words; sometimes she heard...
You know it was love at first sight for both of us, he said.For both of us? Is it by force? Why are you speaking for me?I'm just stating a fact. Stop struggling....Yes, it's a fact, she said.What?I lo...
You look like a black American was his ultimate compliment, which he told her when she wore a nice dress, or when her hair was done in large braids.
Young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled, Americans have sent a message to the world that we have...
And felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself. With him, she was at ease; her skin felt as though it was her right size.
Before he fell asleep, Molière’s words came to him, strangely comforting: Unbroken happiness is a bore; it should have ups and downs.
Breadfruit seeds she had offered him was untouched—he no longer ate anything at all of hers—and she looked at him, this man wearing trousers, and a rosary around his neck, and wondered whether she had...
But it was the commercials that captivated her. She ached for the lives they showed, lives full of bliss, where all problems had sparkling solutions in shampoos and cars and packaged foods, and in her...
Feminism. If anything, it makes us see the extent of the problem, the successful reach of patriarchy. It shows us, too, that not all women are feminists and not all men are misogynists.
It was absurd how women’s magazines forced images of small-boned, small-breasted white women on the rest of the multi-boned, multi-ethnic world of women to emulate.
Me doy cuenta de lo fácil que es dar consejos sobre cómo criar a los hijos cuando no tienes que enfrentarte a la enorme complejidad que comporta.
Only just emerged from a crush on Abe in her ethics class, Abe who was white, Abe who liked her well enough, who thought her smart and funny, even attractive, but who did not see her as female. She wa...
Physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative. And there are no hormones for those attributes.
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