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We Should All Be Feminists

We Should All Be Feminists

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We Should All Be Feminists is a book-length essay by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. First published in 2014 by Fourth Estate, it aims to give a definition of feminism for the 21st century.The essay was adapted from Adichie's 2012 TEDx talk of the same name, first delivered at TEDx Euston in London, which has been viewed more than five million times.

“The late Kenyan Nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said, the higher you go, the fewer women there are.”

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“The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists

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“Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.”

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“A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: We must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently.”

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“I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.”

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“Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage.”

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“My own definition is a feminist is a man or a woman who says, yes, there’s a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better. All of us, women and men, must do better.”

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

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“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.”

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“The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists

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“But by far the worst thing we do to males—by making them feel they have to be hard—is that we leave them with very fragile egos. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is.”

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“A woman at a certain age who is unmarried, our society teaches her to see it as a deep personal failure. And a man, after a certain age isn’t married, we just think he hasn’t come around to making his pick.”

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“I am trying to unlearn many lessons of gender I internalized while growing up. But I sometimes still feel vulnerable in the face of gender expectations.”

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“I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is just as obvious to everyone else.”

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“If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over, it becomes normal.”

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

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“I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.”

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