Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

Both men and women are really vast and boundless and yet in many films we're told that they're not. We're told they can only be one thing - like handsome and charming and that's it. Nothing more.

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

I think it is too hard for men to talk about gender. We have to let men talk about this... because we need men to talk about this if it is ever going to change.

Eventually I figured out there was something systematic in the way women are treated.

Women have choices, and men have responsibilities.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.

In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less?

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

I think human beings have a really broad spectrum of traits, and I almost feel implicated when we say, 'Men are like this, women are like this.' Nobody was telling me, 'Don't get dirty, don't play in the mud, girls don't do that.'

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

Gender injustice is a social impairment and therefore has to be corrected in social attitudes and behaviour.

There are things you maybe could get by a male drill instructor that a female instructor absolutely is never going to let you get away with. Women are harder on women.

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

If I have a male protagonist, it's a studio movie, and if it's a female protagonist, it's an indie movie. That's just how it is. It's not about the studios. It's about America and who goes to see movies. Women are interested in men and women, and men aren't interested in the woman's story. They just aren't.

Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.

We have all the mistakes of one-sex legislation.

The law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women.

Women are not by nature inferior to men...

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.