Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Women
born 1977 Nigeria
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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.
We teach females that in relationships, compromise is what women do.
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)
Gender is not an easy conversation to have. For both men and women, to bring up gender, sometimes encounters almost immediate resistance.
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.
I know young women who are under so much pressure from family, from friends, even from work to get married, and they're pushed to make terrible choices.
Bear it, that is what it means to be a woman...
Zikora (2020)
So if it is in fact true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we must make it our culture.
"So true--when people see an absence of women in engineering, science and technology, then it becomes self-reinforcing."
a feminist is a man or a woman who says "Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it.
Gender matters. Men and women experience the world differently. Gender colors the way we experience the world. But we can change that.
"There was a helplessness to his joy, the same kind of helplessness as in that woman’s despair."
Purple Hibiscus (2003)
Ours was an ancient story, the woman wants the baby and the man doesn’t want the baby and a middle ground does not exist.
Zikora (2020)
Nature demanded so much of the woman and so little of the man
Zikora (2020)