Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

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

Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies?

What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.

Every country faces its own obstacles to reaching gender equality, and to make a real difference, we must change public policies in tandem with stereotypes, attitudes, and behaviors.

One of the main problems of our time is that men are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called feminine, and women are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.

Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women.

The man's world must become a man's and a woman's world. Why are we afraid?

Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.

It seems to me to be kind of inescapable that one has to be interested in the issue of gender and gender equality. I don’t really expect any credit for going in that direction. It’s the only natural direction to go in. Why is it that some people don’t see that as so patently obvious as it should be?

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

Gender equality must become a lived reality.

At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.

On a daily basis, I think it's really important to be conscious of gender-based discrimination - which presents in sometimes more, but often less, obvious forms - and do everything possible to defeat that discrimination.

I've never felt that being a woman was a competitive advantage or disadvantage.

I never used gender as my crutch. Many women don't use gender as a crutch.

Our society really needs to take a better look at what we're selling, because I think women being empowered will be as beneficial to men as it is to us.

How did it come to be that you think men and women are the same? Well, there's a simple answer to the question: Feminism.

An idea built the wall of separation between the sexes, and an idea will crumble it to dust.

I feel like, as women and men and people on the planet, you just have to do the best with what life gives you.

Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.

There are no social differences - till women come in.

Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them.

Radical feminists have been making the pitch that justice demands that men and women be given an equal opportunity to make it to the top in the workplace.