Adichie Feminism Quotes

#1. Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender, or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender. Because thinking of changing the status quo is always uncomfortable.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#2. I am just as human as the man.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#3. Life doesn't have to be hard, life is on your side.

Iyanla Vanzant

#4. The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#5. Sometimes I think depression should be called the coping illness. So many of us struggle on, not daring or knowing how to ask for help. More of us, terribly, go undiagnosed.

Sally Brampton

#6. Haunted trees
covered behind the curtains of their own leaves
stare at the dark
from the fringe of streets.

Suman Pokhrel

#7. Some men feel threatened by the idea of feminism. This comes I think from the insecurity triggered by how boys are brought up, how their sense of self worth is diminished if they are not [naturally] in charge.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#8. I love being irreverent. But I hate being irrelevant. I love being irreverent because at the end of the day your actions belie your intentions.

Esai Morales

#9. Yes," said Hardacre, "but it's not real. We're not real. And when the story is all told, when He writes 'The End' at the bottom of the last page, then all this will wrap up. No more Hell, no more Heaven, no more angels, devils, saints or sinners. The story's done. It will be as if we never were

Matthew Hughes

#10. Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl.
'Because you are a girl' is never reason for anything.
Ever.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#11. The moment the door opened I knew an ass-kicking was inevitable. Whether I'd be giving it or receiving it was still a bit of a mystery.

Rachel Vincent

#12. That a woman claims not to be feminist does not diminish the necessity of feminism. If anything, it makes us see the extent of the problem, the successful reach of patriarchy.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#13. There must be more than male benevolence as the basis for a woman's well-being.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#14. Some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how female apes bow to male apes - that sort of thing. But the point is this: we are not apes. Apes also live in trees and eat earthworms. We do not.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#15. Make it your ultimate habit of life to be kind.

Debasish Mridha

#16. If she likes makeup, let her wear it. If she likes fashion, let her dress up. But if she doesn't like either, let her be. Don't think that raising her feminist means forcing her to reject femininity. Feminism and femininity are not mutually exclusive.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#17. I am a weapon of massive consumption

Lily Allen

#18. Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

W. Somerset Maugham

#19. If we don't place the straitjacket of gender roles on young children, we give them space to reach their full potential.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#20. You know perfectly well that if ever you really want to, you can come back to me, he said without the slightest trace of irony and cynicism, and left.

Ama Ata Aidoo

#21. Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.

Allan Gurganus

#22. Music for us is about articulating the feelings you can't put into words.

Nick Littlemore

#23. Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change. But I am also hopeful, because I believe deeply in the ability of human beings to remake themselves for the better.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#24. Teach her to question men who can have empathy for women only if they see them as relational rather than as individual equal humans.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#25. Mel Gibson's father doesn't think there was a Holocaust? Great. I don't think there's a movie. We're even.

Joan Rivers

#26. We define masculinity in very narrow way. Masculinity is hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage. We teach boys to be afraid of fear, of weakness, of vulnerability. We teach them to mask their true selves, because they have to be, in Nigerian-speak
a hard man,

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#27. Ifemelu thought about the expression "sweet girl." Sweet girl meant that, for a long time, Don had molded Ranyinudo into a malleable shape, or that she had allowed him to think he had.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#28. Make dressing a question of taste and attractiveness instead of a question of morality.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#29. For things to change in our national life we must address the problems from the very root of it.

Sunday Adelaja

#30. Because when there is true equality, resentment does not exist.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#31. For me, feminism is always contextual.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#32. My grandfather was in a barbershop quartet and my grandmother was in a gospel quartet with her sisters.

Kevin Richardson

#33. At some point I was a Happy African Feminist Who Does Not Hate Men and Who Likes to Wear Lip Gloss and High Heels for Herself and Not For Men.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#34. Other men might respond by saying: Okay, this is interesting, but I don't think like that. I don't even think about gender. Maybe not. And that is part of the problem. That many men do not actively think about gender or notice gender.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#35. 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.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie