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“There was something wrong with her. She did not know what it was but there was something wrong with her. A hunger, a restlessness. An incomplete knowledge of herself. The sense of something farther away, beyond her reach.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

“What if, in raising children, we focus on ability instead of gender? What if we focus on interest instead of gender?”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

“… 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.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Purple Hibiscus

Source: Purple Hibiscus

“Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

“You know, you’re a feminist.” It was not a compliment. I could tell from his tone—the same tone with which a person would say, “You’re a supporter of terrorism.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

“People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Purple Hibiscus

Source: Purple Hibiscus

“Because when there is true equality, resentment does not exist.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Source: Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

“People will selectively use “tradition” to justify anything.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

Source: Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

“I like politics and history and am happiest when having a good argument about ideas.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

“I was stained by failure.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Purple Hibiscus

Source: Purple Hibiscus

“And her joy would become a restless thing, flapping its wings inside her, as though looking for an opening to fly away.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Americanah

Source: Americanah

“Grief was the celebration of love, those who could feel real grief were lucky to have loved.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

“There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it into a prosaic partnership.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

“How was it possible to miss something you no longer wanted?”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Americanah

Source: Americanah

“In America, you don’t get to decide what race you are. It is decided for you.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Americanah

Source: Americanah

“Teach her to question language. Language is the repository of our prejudices, our beliefs, our assumptions.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

Source: Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

“We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

““ The only reason you say that race was not an issue is because you wish it was not. We all wish it”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“I don’t think I’m more inherently likely to do domestic work, or childcare ... It doesn’t come pre-programmed in your vagina, right?”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

On how she views gender as a social construct in “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘This could be the beginning of a revolution’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/28/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-feminism-racism-sexism-gender-metoo in The Guardian (2018 Apr 28)