Ma? I think you have the spirit of husband-repelling. You are too hard, ma, you will not find a husband. But my pastor can destroy that spirit.
Never speak of marriage as an achievement.
Ella no entendía el grunge , la idea de ofrecer un aspecto sucio porque podias permitirte no ir sucio, era una burla para los verdaderamente sucios.
She cries quietly, her shoulders heaving up and down, not the kind of loud sobbing that the women Chika knows do, the kind that screams Hold me and comfort me because I cannot deal with this alone. Th...
If we ran Nigeria like this cell, he said, we would have no problems in this country. Things are so organized. Our cell has a Chief called General Abacha and he has a second in command. Once you come...
People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival.
Quante altre persone erano diventate nere in America?
How was it possible to miss something you no longer wanted?
Layer after layer of discontent had settled in her, and formed a mass that now propelled her.
The higher you go, the fewer women there are.
She did not understand grunge, the idea of looking shabby because you could afford not to be shabby; it mocked true shabbiness.
But what struck me was that whenever he changed the baby’s diaper, she said thank you to him.
Si le gusta el maquillaje, deja que se maquille. Si le gusta la moda, deja que se arregle. Pero si no le gusta ni una cosa ni la otra, déjala tranquila. No creas que criar a una feminista consiste en...
I prefer Ms. because it is similar to Mr. A man is Mr. whether married or not, a woman is Ms. whether married or not. So please teach Chizalum that in a truly just society, women should not be expecte...
We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know. I have three...
I now know that nothing he does will make my life change. My life will change only if I want it to change.
Because this is America. You’re supposed to pretend that you don’t notice certain things.
Ikenna, I have come to realize, is a man who carries with him the weight of what could have been.
She was too afraid to hope, now that it seemed possible.
There was something immodest about her modesty: it announced itself.
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