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„You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?” Aunty Ifeka said. “Your life belongs to you and you alone.“ Half of a Yellow Sun

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Nigerian writer 1977

„Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.“ Americanah

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Nigerian writer 1977

„The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.“

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Nigerian writer 1977

„Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.“

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 888

Nigerian writer 1977

„Some people ask: “Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?” Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general—but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.“ We Should All Be Feminists

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Nigerian writer 1977

„If you don't understand, ask questions. If you're uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It's easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more. Sometimes people just want to feel heard. Here's to possibilities of friendship and connection and understanding.“ Americanah

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Nigerian writer 1977

„This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.“ Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 888

Nigerian writer 1977

„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.“ We Should All Be Feminists

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Nigerian writer 1977

„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.“ We Should All Be Feminists

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Nigerian writer 1977

„We spend too much time teaching girls to worry about what boys think of them. But the reverse is not the case. We don’t teach boys to care about being likable. We spend too much time telling girls that they cannot be angry or aggressive or tough, which is bad enough, but then we turn around and either praise or excuse men for the same reasons. All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please men. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women.“ We Should All Be Feminists

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 888

Nigerian writer 1977

„Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.“ Americanah

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Nigerian writer 1977

„I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had recently read a novel called American Psycho, and that it was a shame that young Americans were serial murderers.“

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