And then we do a much greater disservice to girls, because we raise them to cater to the fragile egos of males. We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls: You ca...
And they have been raised to expect so little of men that the idea of men as savage beings with no self-control is somehow acceptable. We
And, by the way, you and the guy
Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.
Are you the first person to have this problem? You have to get up and hustle. Everybody is hustling, Lagos is about hustling, Nneoma said.
As we drove back to Enugu, I laughed loudly,above Fela's stringent singing. I laughed because Nsukka's untarred roads coat cars with dust in the harmattan and with sticky mud in the rainy season. Beca...
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...
Because you are a girl is never a reason for anything. Ever. I
Between her and what she should feel, there was a gap. She cared about nothing. She wanted to care, but she no longer knew how; it had slipped from her memory, the ability to care.
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...
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.
Circles, homework coupons, what foolishness would she next hear? And so she began to teach him mathematics—she called it maths and he called it math
Cuanto más duro se siente obligado a ser un hombre, más debilitado queda su ego.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
Gender matters everywhere in the world. And I would like today to ask what we begin to dream about and plan for a different world. A fairer world. A world of happier women who are truer to themselves....
Grandpapa used to say, about difficulties he had gone through, ‘It did not kill me, it made me knowledgeable.’O gburo m egbu, o mee ka m malu ife.
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