20 phrases by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie full of strength and endurance

I constantly make the mistake of thinking that something obvious to me is obvious to everyone else.

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

I’ve been a feminist since I started to understand the world. I didn’t need to read any books, I just watched and realized that the world doesn’t give the same dignity to women that it gives to men.

I think you travel to get something and you come home to find yourself.

Imagine how happier we would be, how free we would be to be ourselves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.

Of course I’m not worried about intimidating men. The kind of man who will be bullied by me is exactly the kind of man I have no interest in.

You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Your life belongs to you and you alone.

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.

This was love: a series of coincidences that took on meaning and became miracles.

There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make others easily forgivable.

Be a complete person. Motherhood is a wonderful gift, but don’t be defined by motherhood alone. Be a complete person.

Race doesn’t really exist for you because it was never a barrier. Blacks don’t have that choice.

There are many different ways to be poor in the world, but increasingly there seems to be only one way to be rich.

Manhood is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside that cage.

How can we resist exploitation if we don’t have the tools to understand exploitation?

How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create the versions of our lives we imagined with strangers.

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

The truth has become an insult.

If we do something over and over again, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over again, it becomes normal.

Choosing to write is to reject silence.