That absurd idea of men will be men, which means having a much lower standard for men.
That people walk different paths in the world, and that as long as those paths do no harm to others, they are valid paths that she must respect.
What I hope for Chizalum is this: that she will be full of opinions, and that her opinions will come from an informed, humane and broad-minded place.
O que desejo a Chizalum é o seguinte: que ela seja cheia de opiniões, e que suas opiniões provenham de uma base bem informada, humana e de uma mente aberta. Que ela tenha saúde e felicidade. Que tenha...
To clarify, when white people say dark they mean Greek or Italian but when black people say dark they mean Grace Jones.)
Teach her that the idea of gender roles is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl. Because you are a girl is never a reason for anythi...
And begin a life in which she alone determined the margins.
A Nigerian couple visiting from Maryland, their two boys sitting next to them on the sofa, both buttoned-up and stiff, caged in the airlessness of their parents' immigrant aspirations.
Her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out.
It is one thing to know something intellectually and quite another to feel it emotionally.
My point is that the only authentic identity for the African is the tribe...I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed t...
Parents unconsciously start very early to teach girls how to be, that baby girls are given less room and more rules and baby boys more room and fewer rules.
There was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, that over the months mel...
A husband is not a headmaster. A wife is not a schoolgirl. Permission and being allowed, when used one-sidedly – and they are nearly only used that way – should never be the language of an equal marri...
A person who had to spread the cloak of religion over her own petty desires.
A questão de gênero, como está estabelecida hoje em dia, é uma grande injustiça. Estou com raiva. Devemos ter raiva. Ao longo da história, muitas mudanças positivas só aconteceram por causa da raiva....
A woman at a certain age who is unmarried, our society teaches her to see it as a deep personal failure. And a man, after a certain age isn’t married, we just think he hasn’t come around to making his...
After work, she wandered around the center of Baltimore, aimlessly, interested in nothing. Was this what the novelists meant by ennui?
Afterwards they would return to America to fight on the Internet over their mythologies of home, because home was now a blurred place between here and there, and at least online they could ignore the...
Algunas personas preguntan: ‘¿Por qué la palabra feminista? ¿Por qué no sólo dices que crees en los derechos humanos, o algo así? Porque eso sería deshonesto. El feminismo es, por supuesto, parte de l...
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