Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life.

I'm saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.

It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.

You know, I've always considered women to be people.

society, while willing to make room for women, is not willing to make changes for them.

All sorts of articles and letters appear in the papers about women. Profound questions are raised concerning them. Should they smoke? Should they work? Vote? Marry? Exist? Are not their skirts too short, or their sleeves? Have they a sense of humor, of honor, of direction? Are spinsters superfluous? But how seldom similar inquiries are propounded about men.

I do think there is a sort of natural balance in nature between men and women, and that it's being thrown off-balance by the social and economic inequities between men and women.

I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.

To me, feminism means equality between men and women. I want to make people laugh and also point out some injustices or inequalities I see.

As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.

I still consider myself a feminist.

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.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

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.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities.

Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

I am most certainly a feminist.

I want my books to force readers to recognise the fact that a woman is a human being just like them.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

I focus on a lot of women's issues.

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

People ask me why I'm so hard on men. It's because they've gotten a really easy ride. And it's not that I think women should take over the world. But I do think it should be 50/50.

The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.