And after you register your own company, you must find a white man. Find one of your white friends in England. Tell everybody he is your General Manager. You will see how doors will open for you becau...
And I was worried that if I looked too feminine, I would not be taken seriously. I really wanted to wear my shiny lip gloss and my girly skirt, but I decided not to. I wore a very serious, very manly,...
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...
A person who had to spread the cloak of religion over her own petty desires.
A las niñas les decimos: Puedes tener ambición, pero no demasiada. Debes intentar tener éxito, pero nodemasiado, porque entonces estarás amenazando a los hombres. Si tú eres el sostén económico en tu...
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 cultura não faz as pessoas. As pessoas fazem a cultura. Se uma humanidade inteira de mulheres não faz parte da nossa cultura, então temos que mudar nossa cultura.
Os que estudaram vão embora, aqueles que têm potencial para consertar o que está errado. Eles deixam os fracos para trás. Os tiranos continuam reinando porque os fracos não conseguem resistir. Você nã...
To clarify, when white people say dark they mean Greek or Italian but when black people say dark they mean Grace Jones.)
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...
«En lugar de enseñarle a tu hija a agradar, enséñale a ser sincera. Y amable. Y valiente. Anímala a decir lo que piensa, a decir lo que opina en realidad, a decir la verdad. [...] Dile que, si algo la...
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.
Was shaking his head sadly as he spoke—was that I should never call myself a feminist since feminists are women who are unhappy because they cannot find husbands. So I decided to call myself a Happy F...
Was safe and easy, after all, to display legs of which the world approved—but the fat woman’s act was about the quiet conviction that one shared only with oneself, a sense of rightness that others fai...
That absurd idea of men will be men, which means having a much lower standard for men.
Shouldn’t keep you,’ Olanna repeated, and placed the phone down. She picked it up again, and was about to give the operator her mother’s number before she dropped it back. She wished there was somebod...
She thought that the romance novelists were wrong and it was men, not women, who were the true romantics.
Physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative. And there are no hormones for those attributes.
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.
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...