Source: The Obelisk Gate (2016), Chapter 15 “Nassun, in rejection” (p. 270)
“Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage.”
Source: We Should All Be Feminists
Source: https://sheleadsafrica.org/20-powerful-chimamanda-adichie-quotes-for-todays-boss-women/
Volume 3, Ch. 4
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
“Reader, pray that soon this Iron Age
Will crumble, and Beauty escape the rusting cage.”
"Beauty in This Iron Age" in Starlanes #11 (Fall 1953); re-published in Pearls From Peoria (2006)
“A robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all Heaven in a rage.”
Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 5
“The dictator is the one animal who needs to be caged.”
Source: Letter to his daughter (1978), p. 63.
Context: Tin-pot dictators have ravaged Asia, Latin America and Africa. In the aftermath, they have done more to promote communism than the works of Marx and Engels, Lenin and Mao. They are the worst tyrants of the post-colonial period. They have destroyed time-honoured institutions and treated their people like animals. They have caused internal divisions and external confusion. The dictator is the one animal who needs to be caged. He betrays his profession and his constitution. He betrays the people and destroys human values. He destroys culture. He binds the youth. He makes the structure collapse. He rules by fluke and freak. He is the scourge and the ogre. He is a leper. Anyone who touches him also becomes a leper. He is the upstart who is devoid of ideals and ideology. Not a single one of them has made a moment's contribution to history.
“Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.”
The Meadow (1947), originally a radio play for the World Security Workshop; later revised into a short story for this anthology.
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
