What a beautiful name, Kimberly said. Does it mean anything? I love multicultural names because they have such wonderful meanings, from wonderful rich cultures. Kimberly was smiling the kindly smile o...
Why didn't she just ask 'Was it the white girl or the black girl?' Because this is America. You're supposed to pretend that you don't notice certain things.
You gave him what he wanted, Curt said. The planes of his face were hardening. It was an odd thing for Curt to say, the sort of thing Aunty Uju, who thought of sex as something a woman gave a man at a...
As though the writers lived in a world in which the present was unconnected to the past, and they had never considered this to be the normal course of history: the influx into Britain of black and bro...
Feminist is so heavy with baggage, negative baggage: You hate men, you hate bras, you hate African culture, you think women should always be in charge, you don’t wear makeup, you don’t shave, you’re a...
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...
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...
«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...
¿Por qué la gente preguntaba «De qué trata» como si una novela tuviera que tratar de una sola cosa?
Teach her never to universalize her own standards or experiences. Teach her that her standards are for her alone, and not for other people. This is the only necessary form of humility: the realization...
There is nothing more beautiful than what God gave me.
He did not want me to seek the whys, because there are some things that happen for which we can formulate no whys, for which whys simply do not exist and, perhaps, are not necessary.
He smiled at her self-mockery, a smile that seemed to her like a prize that she wanted to win over and over again.
It would hurt him to know that she had felt that way for a while, that her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out.
Real deep romantic love, the kind that twists you and wrings you out and makes you breathe through the nostrils of your beloved.
That gently forbearing tone that he used when they talked about novels, as though he were sure that she, with a little more time and a little more wisdom, would come to accept that the novels he liked...
A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: We must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently.
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 awareness of how inconsequential...
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 brave. Encourage her to speak her mind, to say what she really thinks, to speak truthfully. And then praise her when she does. Praise her especially when she takes a stand that is difficult or unp...
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