Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieIf the government doesn't fund education, which they often don't, students are going to stay home and not go to school. It affects them directly. But I'm really not interested in writing explicitly about that. I'm really interested in human beings, and in love, and in family. Somehow, politics comes in.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieCreative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieAbout 52% of the world's population is female. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The late Kenyan Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said 'The higher you go, the fewer women there are.'
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie