Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

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.

Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?

The world is still sexist.

I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.

I want men to stop calling me a queen and treating me like an imbecile.

Have you ever seen a man darning socks? So therefore a woman cannot be a combat pilot.

You—the outside world—will be told that it is our “culture” and “religion” to do X, Y, and Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman.

Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy.

I don't fear being judged as a misogynist.

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

I am not for women but against men.

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.

That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman?

This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place . . . and the world waits while she powders her nose.

I was called a feminist, and what I heard was, 'You are an angry, sex-hating, man-hating victim lady person.' This caricature is how feminists have been warped by the people who fear feminism most, the same people who have the most to lose when feminism succeeds.

The inferiority of women is man-made.

The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how to think. It forbade her to speak in public and said the sex had no orators. It denied her the schools, and said the sex had no genius. It robbed her of every vestige of responsibility, and then called her weak. It taught her that every pleasure must come as a favor from men and when, to gain it, she decked herself in paint and fine feathers, as she had been taught to do, it called her vain.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

I hate the victimization of women, always.

How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.