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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."
Nigeria Academics Activists Authors Educators Also known as: Americanah
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Things started to fall apart at home.”
Purple Hibiscus (2003)
I am a feminist. And when I looked up the word in the dictionary that day, this is what it said: Feminist, a person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.
Marriage can be a good thing, a source of joy, love, and mutual support. But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage, but we don’t teach boys to do the same?
Each morning, I coated concealer on the dark bags under my eyes. Most days, I caressed a bottle of Advil, longing for the translucent green pills, but knowing that I would never take them.
Zikora (2020)
Some social media companies “lack transparency”
The waiters are products of a society that has taught them that men are more important than women. And I know that waiters don't intend any harm. But it's one thing to know intellectually and quite another to feel it emotionally.
In secondary school, a boy and a girl, both of them teenagers, both of them with the same amount of pocket money, would go out and then the boy would be expected always to pay, to prove his masculinity. And yet we wonder why boys are more likely to steal money from their parents.
Nature must not want humans to reproduce, otherwise birthing would be easy, even enjoyable
Zikora (2020)
Love was about this, the nuggets of knowledge about our beloved that we so fluently hold.
Zikora (2020)
How you imagine something will be is always worse than how it actually ends up being
Zikora (2020)
Something was growing inside me, alien, uninvited, and it felt like an infestation.
Zikora (2020)
I began to cry. Tears were so cheap now. How do some memories insist on themselves?
Zikora (2020)
A geyser of anxiety had erupted deep inside me and I was spurting fear.
Zikora (2020)
And I never told the boy who didn’t love me, the boy I was trying to make love me when I didn’t yet know that you cannot nice your way into being loved.
Zikora (2020)
Things started to fall apart when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion and Papa flung his heavy missal across the room and broke the figurines on the étagère.
Purple Hibiscus (2003)
He rolled his eyes in a kind of disbelieving amusement. “What, the single friend will seduce the husband, or the single friend will make the wife want to be single again?
Zikora (2020)
I felt ragged and hopeless, high on my desperation. I had already ripped up my dignity, so I might as well scatter the pieces.
Zikora (2020)
I'm chasing you. I'm going to chase you until you give this a chance.
Americanah (2013)
They learned instead from mainstream pornography, where women were always shaved smooth and never had periods, and so they became men who thought the contrived histrionics onscreen were How Things Were Done.
Zikora (2020)
I was a very curious child keen to hear every story, especially those that were no business of mine. And so, as a result, I sharpened very early on in life the skill of eavesdropping, a pastime at which I am still quite adept.
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