There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

My greatest vanity is my skin. It is the colour of gingerbread and, thanks to my mother's genes, smooth and mostly blemish-free.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We 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 Adichie

Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie