I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieOne of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieBecause I am female, Iām expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThis is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality is difficult to fully define, but I always recognise it when I see it: it is different from honesty and more resilient than fact, something that exists not in the kind of fiction that explains but in the kind that shows.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie