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 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 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...
He had at first been excited by Facebook, ghosts of old friends suddenly morphing to life with wives and husbands and children, and photos trailed by comments. But he began to be appalled by the air o...
He expected her to feel what she did not know how to feel. There were things that existed for him that she could not penetrate. With his close friends, she often felt vaguely lost. They were youngish...
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.
Gender and class are different. Poor men still have the privileges of being men, even if they do not have the privileges of being wealthy.
For me, feminism is always contextual.
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: uma pessoa que acredita na igualdade social, política e econômica entre os sexos.
Feminist: a person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes. My
Feminism and Femininity are not mutually exclusive.
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...
Eu sorrira, correra, rira. Meu peito estava repleto de alguma coisa parecida com espuma de banho. Leve. A leveza era tão doce que eu podia sentir seu gosto na língua, tinha a doçura de um caju maduro,...
Eu sorrira, correra, ria. Meu peito estava repleto de alguma coisa parecida com espuma de banho. Leve. A leveza era tão doce que eu podia sentir seu gosto na língua, tinha a doçura de um caju maduro,...
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...