The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieI think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieWe teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieI have many problems in my life, but I don't think that identity is one of them.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThere are people who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not crawl, once
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie