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A book did not qualify as literature unless it had polysyllabic words and incomprehensible passages.

A book did not qualify as literature unless it had polysyllabic words and incomprehensible passages.
– Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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  1. At some point I was a Happy African Feminist Who Does Not Hate Men and Who Likes to Wear Lip Gloss and High Heels for Herself and Not For Men. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  2. We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  3. I am just as human as the man. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  4. Sometimes life begins when the marriage ends – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  5. If we don’t place the straitjacket of gender roles on young children, we give them space to reach their full potential. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  6. The Tanzanian told her that all fiction was therapy, some sort of therapy, no matter what anybody said. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  7. Because when there is true equality, resentment does not exist. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  8. There must be more than male benevolence as the basis for a woman’s well-being. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  9. Teach her to question men who can have empathy for women only if they see them as relational rather than as individual equal humans. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  10. Make dressing a question of taste and attractiveness instead of a question of morality. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  11. A man who would be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  12. We’re all social beings. We internalize ideas from our socialization. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  13. Now imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  14. And then we do a much greater disservice to girls, because we raise them to cater to the fragile egos of males. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  15. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  16. A man is likely as a woman to be intelligent, innovative and creative. We have evolved. But our ideas of gender have not evolved very much. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  17. If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over it becomes normal. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  18. The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  19. The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we ´should’ be rather than recognizing how we are. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  20. Don’t see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy. What will you do with the misery you have chosen? Will you eat misery? – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  21. If the sun refuses to rise we will make it rise – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  22. I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  23. Ma? I think you have the spirit of husband-repelling. You are too hard, ma, you will not find a husband. But my pastor can destroy that spirit. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  24. femelu could not understand this, her mother’s ability to tell herself stories about her reality that did not even resemble her reality – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  25. …she thought of him as a person who did not have a normal spine, but had instead, a firm reed of goodness. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  26. One day, I will look up and all the people I know will be dead or abroad. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  27. Greatness depends on where you are coming from. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  28. A father is as much a verb as a mother. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  29. Talk to her about sex, and start early. It will probably be a bit awkward, but it is necessary. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  30. And it’s wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It’s possible to love something and still condescend to it. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  31. smiling a smile full of things restrained – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  32. Race doesn’t really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don’t have that choice. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  33. In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  34. We never actively remember death,’ Odenigbo said. The reason we live as we do is because we do not remember that we will die. We will all die. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  35. We never actively remember death,’ Odenigbo said. The reason we live as we do is because we do not remember that we will die. We will all die. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  36. The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  37. Reading the Bible has a purifying effect upon the heart and mind. As you read, the Holy Spirit will enlighten the passages for you. – Billy Graham
  38. Changing your mind can move you into another dimension. Passages materialize exposing a hidden world that was there all along. – Bryant McGill
  39. What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages. – Justin Cronin
  40. In her past were sweet passages, in her future rosy hopes. – Charlotte Bront

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