Então, de uma forma literal, os homens governam o mundo. Isso fazia sentido há mil anos. Os seres humanos viviam num mundo onde a força física era o atributo mais importante para a sobrevivência; quan...
Enséñale a que nunca, jamás, diga tonterías del calibre «mi dinero es mío y el suyo de los dos». Es mezquino. Y peligroso: semejante actitud significa que potencialmente tendrás que aceptar otras idea...
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....
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...
Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it into a prosaic partnership.
Each memory stunned her with its blinding luminosity. Each brought with it a sense of unassailable loss, a great burden hurtling towards her, and she wished she could duck, lower herself so that it wo...
E se os pais, desde o início, tivessem ensinado ambos os filhos a cozinhar macarrão instantâneo? Aliás, aprender a cozinhar é bom para a vida prática e útil de um menino — nunca vi sentido em deixar n...
Doris’s
Do you want this one, sweetheart? The yellow or the blue or the red? Which do you want? Just give her one, Ifemelu thought. To overwhelm a child of four with choices, to lay on her the burden of makin...
Do not measure her on a scale of what a girl should be. Measure her on a scale of being the best version of herself.
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 anything. Ever.
Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.
Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I'm Jamaican or I'm Ghanaian. America doesn't care...What if being black had all the p...
Cada mañana despertaba aletargada, lastrada por la tristeza, asustada por el interminable día que se extendía ante ella. Todo se había espesado. Estaba sumergida, perdida, en una bruma viscosa, envuel...
But Kimberly’s unhappiness was inward, unacknowledged, shielded by her desire for things to be as they should, and also by hope: she believed in other people’s happiness because it meant that she, too...
Big Men and Big Women,
Beware the danger of what I call Feminism Lite. It is the idea of conditional female equality. Please reject this entirely. It is a hollow, appeasing, and bankrupt idea. Being a feminist is like being...
Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that.
Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that... Marlene Sanders... once gave this piece of advice to a younger journalist: Never apologize for working. You love what you do, and loving what you...
At first Ifemelu thought Kimberly's apologizing sweet, even if unnecessary, but she had begun to feel a flash of impatience, because Kimberly's repeated apologies were tinged with self-indulgence, as...