“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.” MenWorldBookOrderPleaseGuidesMagazinesArticlesFewer Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.” MenAgeCertainTeachPicksOur SocietyUnmarriedPersonal Failure Book:We Should All Be Feminists Source: We Should All Be Feminists
“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.” IfsMenSaidBehaveYellow Sun Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal to one dead white person.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenWritingPersonsWantedBlackWhiteEqualRacismHundredWesternWoundsJournalismBlack PeopleWhite ManPeppers Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“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.” MenCharacterYoungFatherNovelStudentsShameUniversitySpokesMurdererSerialsPsychoAbusers Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“There's something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You've never even accepted that the man is ugly,' Kainene said. There was a small smile on her face and then she was laughing, and Olanna could not help but laugh too, because it was not what she had wanted to hear and because hearing it had made her feel better.” MenWayFeelsLongMadeSaidHelpingWantedFacesLaughingUglyHearingAcceptedLazyCriticizeFeel Better Book:Half of a Yellow Sun Source: Half of a Yellow Sun
“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.” MenMotivationalCoursesWomenInterestFeminismTypeFeministWorriedEmpoweringWomen EmpowermentStrong WomenEmpowering WomenMen WomenIntimidatingIntimidatedBeing A WomanEmpowered WomenWomen Empowering WomenInspirational WomenInspirational Strong WomenBeing A Strong WomanStrong Women And LoveWomen Best InspirationalStrong Women MotivationInspirational FeministImages Of Strong WomenAmbitious WomenEmpowering Female Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls: 'You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you will threaten the man.' Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices, always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now, marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support, but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don't teach boys the same?” MenShouldMindImportantJoyChoicesGirlWomenInspiringBoysTeachSupportSuccessfulToo MuchHe ManSourceAmbitionFemaleAnd LoveAimExpectedBeing SuccessfulMutualAspireShrinksLife ChoicesFlawlessMutual SupportSay To A Girl Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“At some point I was a HappyAfricanFeminist who does not hate men. And who likes lip gloss and who wears high heels for herself but not for men.” MenDoeHateLipsFeministLikesHeelsHate MeHigh HeelsGlossLip Gloss Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“You can have ambition But not too much You should aim to be successful But not too successful Otherwise you will threaten the man” MenShouldSuccessfulToo MuchHe ManAmbitionAimBeing SuccessfulAspireFlawlessMutual Support Book:We Should All Be Feminists Source: We Should All Be Feminists
“About 52% of the world's population is female. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. 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.'” MenWorldWellsSaidPositionHigherLateFemalePopulationFewerNobelPrestigePosition Of Power Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Culture does not make people - people make culture. So if it is in fact true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, we must make it our culture. [...] A feminist is a man or a woman who says, 'yes there is a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it. We must do better.'” PeopleIfsMenDoeFactsProblemTodayHumanityCultureFeministGenderFearless Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“The idea that sex is something a woman gives a man, and she loses something when she does that, which again for me is nonsense. I want us to raise girls differently where boys and girls start to see sexuality as something that they own, rather than something that a boy takes from a girl.” MenWantGivingDoeIdeasGirlSexLosesBoysRaisesSexualityNonsenseWant UBoy And Girl Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are. If we have sons, we don't mind knowing about our sons' girlfriends, but our daughters' boyfriends? God forbid. But of course when the time is right, we expect those girls to bring back the perfect man to be their husband.” IfsMenWayMindGirlCoursesPerfectBoysTeachKnowingSonHusbandDaughterGirlfriendOur DaughterPerfect Man Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
