I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.

That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out

Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.

If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.

The 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.

For centuries, the world divided human beings into two groups and then proceeded to exclude and oppress one group. It is only fair that the solution to the problem acknowledge that.

Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.