Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian writer of novels, short stories, and nonfiction. In 2008 she was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant. She was...
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 Adichie
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.
I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.
Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.
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
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.
There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.
She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.
To choose to write is to reject silence. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
To choose to write is to reject silence.
I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.
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
You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.
She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs.
Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.
How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.