Look at you. You're the kindest person I know. Look how beautiful you are. Why do you need so much outside of yourself? Why isn't what you are enough?
Às vezes a vida começa quando o casamento acaba.
We use the word respect to mean something a women shows a man, but not often something a man shows a woman.
Papa sat down at the table and poured his tea from the china tea set with pink flowers on the edges. I waited for him to ask Jaja and me to take a sip, as he always did. A love sip, he called it, beca...
Foreign behavior? What the fuck are you talking about? Foreign behavior? Have you read Things Fall Apart? Ifemulu asked, wishing she had not told Ranyinudo about Dike. She was angrier with Ranyinudo t...
Feminism and femininity are not mutually exclusive. It is misogynistic to suggest that they are. Sadly, women have learned to be ashamed and apologetic about pursuits that are seen as traditionally fe...
We are very ideological about fiction in this country. If a character is not familiar, then that character becomes unbelievable.
As they walked out of the store, Ifemelu said, I was waiting for her to ask ‘Was it the one with two eyes or the one with two legs?’ Why didn’t she just ask ‘Was it the black girl or the white girl?’G...
Because when there is true equality, resentment does not exist.
We're all social beings. We internalize ideas from our socialization.
She did not tell him this, because it would hurt him to know 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 lo...
The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership. We
We never actively remember death,' Odenigbo said. The reason we live as we do is because we do not remember that we will die. We will all die.
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
Nossa premissa feminista é: eu tenho valor. Eu tenho igualmente valor. Não se. Não enquanto. Eu tenho igualmente valor. E ponto final.
She imagines the cocoa brown of Nnedi's eyes lighting up, her lips moving quickly, explaining that riots do not happen in a vacuum, that religion and ethnicity are often politicized because the ruler...
Men's grooming is never suspect in the way women's grooming is--a well-dressed man does not worry that, because he is dressed well, certain assumptions might be made about his intelligence, his abilit...
My Fellow Non-American Blacks: In America, You Are Black, Baby 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 Gha...
Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. 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 reason for anyt...
The Tanzanian told her that all fiction was therapy, some sort of therapy, no matter what anybody said.
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