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Quotes from Zikora — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

born 1977 Nigeria

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43 quotes

Symptoms can mean nothing if a mind just cannot.

Zikora (2020)

How swift the moment is when your life becomes a different life.

Zikora (2020)

I believed then that love had to feel like hunger to be true.

Zikora (2020)

Bear it, that is what it means to be a woman...

Zikora (2020)

It was something like pain and different from pain.

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Some kindnesses you do not ever forget. You carry them to your grave, held warmly somewhere, brought up and savored from time to time.

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In my head, there was a queue of emotions I could not name, wanting to be tried out one after the other.

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I felt translucent, so fragile that one more rejection would make me come fully undone.

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Only later did I see how, to survive, she wielded her niceness like a subtle sharp knife.

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We mostly spoke English; Igbo was for mimicking relatives and for saying painful things.

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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.

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Nature demanded so much of the woman and so little of the man

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I felt light from relief, weightless, unburdened.

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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.

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Nature must not want humans to reproduce, otherwise birthing would be easy, even enjoyable

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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

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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?

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A geyser of anxiety had erupted deep inside me and I was spurting fear.

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Attribution

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