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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

born 1977 Nigeria

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 15 September, 1977) is a Nigerian author and activist. She was described in The Times Literary Supplement as "the most prominent" of a "procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors that is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature."

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Also known as: Americanah

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

“I have always longed to be known, truly known by another human being.”

Notes on Grief (2021)

The sad truth is that when it comes to appearance we start off with man as the standard, as the norm.

No human endeavour requires freedom as much as creativity does.

Today women in general are more likely to do the house work than men, the cooking and cleaning.

We use the word "respect" to mean something a woman shows a man but often not something a man shows a woman.

I know a woman who decided to sell her house because she didn't want to intimidate a man who might marry her.

“Writing fiction is the love of my life. It's the thing that I think gives me meaning.”

Notes on Grief (2021)

I actually learned quite a bit about systems of oppression and how they can be blind to one another by talking to black men.

Freedom of expression is after all, the bedrock of open societies.

The language of marriage is often the language of ownership rather than the language of partnership.

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

We Should All Be Feminists (2014)

We teach females that in relationships, compromise is what women do.

There are writers, like Rushdie, who want to write novels about sensitive subjects but are held back by the spectre of social censure.

Gender and class are different forms of oppression.

We would not expect this whispering in a democracy.

The answer to bad speech is more speech.

Some people will say that a woman being subordinate to a man is our culture. But culture is constantly changing.

“Women in general are more likely to have richer interior lives and are also socialized to just sort of embrace more complexity emotionally.”

Notes on Grief (2021)

We do a much greater disservice to girls because we raise them to cater to the fragile egos of men.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.