He told me that people were saying my novel was feminist, and his advice to me - he was shaking his head sadly as he spoke - was that I should never call myself a feminist, since feminists are woman w...
He pulled her to him, and for a while Olanna did nothing, her body limp against his. She was used to this, being grabbed by men who walked around in a cloud of cologne-drenched entitlement, with the p...
Grandpapa used to say, about difficulties he had gone through, ‘It did not kill me, it made me knowledgeable.’O gburo m egbu, o mee ka m malu ife.
Grandpapa used to say, about difficulties he had gone through, 'It did not kill me, it made me knowledgeable.
Grace would ponder this story for a long time, with great sadness, and it would cause her to make a clear link between education and dignity, between the hard, obvious things that are printed in books...
Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change. In addition to anger, I am also hopeful, because I be...
For a moment, her breath stalled, and then she laughed, a dizzying, exhilarating laugh, because her life had become a charmed film in which people found each other again.
Finally, don’t put on a Let’s Be Fair tone and say But black people are racist too. Because of course we’re all prejudiced (I can’t even stand some of my blood relatives, grasping, selfish folks), but...
Feminista feliz africana que no odia a los hombres y a quien le gusta llevar pintalabios y tacones altos para sí misma y no para los hombresMe encantó, disfruté y ame esté libro, se me hicieron muy po...
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...
Feminism Lite uses the language of ‘allowing’. Theresa May is the British prime minister and here is how a progressive British newspaper described her husband: ‘Philip May is known in politics as a ma...
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.
Eu tinha lido que o Brasil é a meca das raças, mas, quando fui ao Rio, ninguém que estava nos restaurantes e hotéis caros se parecia comigo.
Estás en un país que no es el tuyo. Para salir adelante, haces lo que tengas que hacer.
Es lo que Estados Unidos logra de ti, piensa. Te impone el igualitarismo. Como no tienes a nadie con quien hablar, aparte de tus hijos pequeños, recurres a la criada. Y antes de que te des cuenta es t...
Enseña a Chizalum a leer. Enséñale el amor por los libros. La mejor manera de hacerlo es mediante el ejemplo. Si te ve leyendo, comprenderá que leer es valioso. Si no fuera a la escuela y solo leyera...
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 mundo entero está lleno de artículos de revistas y libros que les dicen a las mujeres qué tienen que hacer, cómo tienen que ser y cómo no tienen que ser si quieren atraer o complacer a los hombres....
Education is a priority! How can we resist exploitation if we don’t have the tools to understand exploitation?
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...