My own definition is a feminist is a man or a woman who says, yes, there’s a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better. All of us, women and men, must do better.
Let her know that there are many individuals and many cultures that do not find the narrow mainstream definition of beauty attractive.
Laura picked up the menu again. In graduate school I knew a woman from Africa who was just like this doctor, I think she was from Uganda. She was wonderful, and she didn’t get along with the African-A...
La persona más cualificada para ser líder ya no es la persona con más fuerza física. Es la más inteligente, la que tiene más conocimientos, la más creativa o la más innovadora. Y para estos atributos...
It was not as if he did not know what living in Lagos could do to a woman married to a young and wealthy man, how easy it was to slip into paranoid about 'Lagos girls,' those sophisticated monsters of...
It puzzled him that she did not mourn all the things she could have been. Was it a quality inherent in women, or did they just learn to shield their personal regrets, to suspend their lives, subsume t...
It is one of the things she has come to love about America, the abundance of unreasonable hope.
In America, you don’t get to decide what race you are. It is decided for you.
I looked the word up in the dictionary, it said: Feminist: a person who believes in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes. My great-grandmother, from stories I’ve heard, was a femi...
He was now a husband and father, and they had not been in touch in years, yet she could not pretend that he was not a part of her homesickness, or that she did not often think of him, sifting through...
He said, ‘Ifemelu is a fine babe but she is too much trouble. She can argue. She can talk. She never agrees. But Ginika is just a sweet girl.’ He paused, then added, He didn’t know that was exactly w...
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...
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...
Existem pessoas (...) que acham que nós não conseguimos governar nosso próprio país, pois nas poucas vezes em que tentamos nós falhamos, como se todos os outros que se governam hoje em dia tivessem ac...
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.
Esa es la naturaleza de Dios. Si comprendes la idea básica de la naturaleza de Dios es diferente de la humana, entonces todo cobra sentido -dijo Chinedu, y abrió la portezuela para bajarse del coche.
Enséñale sobre privilegios y desigualdades y la importancia de respetar la dignidad de todo aquel que no le quiera mal: enséñale que el servicio es igual de humano que ella, enséñale a saludar siempre...
Du kan inte skriva ett manuskript i huvudet och tvinga dig själv att följa det. Du måste låta dig själv vara, Richard
Don’t you just hate it how people say ‘I’m pressed’ or ‘I want to ease myself’ when they want to go to the bathroom? Doris asked. Ifemelu laughed. I know! I guess ‘bathroom’ is very American. But ther...
Chispeante Paola era como las estrellas plateadas que las maestras de Curt pegaban en las hojas de su cuaderno en primaria, fuentes de placer superficial y efímero.