Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

I felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

The business of fiction is the study of the human condition, and gender is something that many humans are obsessed with, thus making it rather difficult to ignore when studying the human condition!

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

When it comes to dividing Americans on the basis of their gender, I know a little something about the subject.

I've always been very vocal, but there have been moments where I've found it difficult to negotiate things that are about gender.

I'm of the opinion that gender is a social construct.

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society.

So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom.

I'm an only child, so I never had sisters to tell me what I should like based on my gender. I liked what the boys were doing and thought: 'Why let them have all the fun?'

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clear: women won.

Being in drag for three months - I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little.

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

We all live in a culture that is continually isolating feminine and masculine aspects, even when they're not related to people.

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation.

No one knows 'men' as such, any more than anyone knows 'women,' and if they do generalise they're probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one 'man,' yes, or even lots of individual 'men'.

I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?