Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes About Gender

Quotes about: Gender

• Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Women, Rights, Expression

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.41, Vintage

• Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Today, Problem, Gender

  "We should all be feminists". TED Talks, www.ted.com. December 2012.

• The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Problem, Gender, Should

  "We Should All Be Feminists". Book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, July 29, 2014.

• Culture does not make people - people make culture. So if it is in fact true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, we must make it our culture. [...] A feminist is a man or a woman who says, 'yes there is a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it. We must do better.'

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Men, People, Feminist

  "We should all be feminists". TED Talks, www.ted.com. December 2012.

• Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in "real" African culture, before it was tainted by the west, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Real, West, Culture

  "Nigeria's immorality is about hypocrisy, not miniskirts" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2008.

• The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Self, Expectations, Would Be

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.18, Vintage

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