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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

Total quotes: 12
“I don't want to be a sweetheart. I want to be the fucking love of your life.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
Tagged: Love, romance, Lover, Love & Connection, Love & Contentment
“I knew what I wanted to run to. But it didn’t exist, so I didn’t leave.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
Tagged: Running Away, fears, Leaving, Staying, decision
“There was something in him, lighter than ego but darker than insecurity, that needed constant buffing, polishing, waxing.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
“Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
Tagged: Love In Lit, love quotes
“Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah (Ala Notable Books for Adults)
Tagged: Writing, Novels, Meaning, purpose
“How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
Tagged: Lies, Relationships, self, Self-awareness, Imagination
“She found it so attractive, his shortness, his solid firm shortness. She saw, in his shortness, a groundedness; he could weather anything, he would not easily be swayed.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah (Ala Notable Books for Adults)
Tagged: Love, Relationships, strength, self
“She wanted to tell him, “There is no week that passed that I did not think of you.” But was that true? Of course there were weeks during which he was folded under layers of her life, but it felt true.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah (Ala Notable Books for Adults)
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Life, Distance, Heartbreak
“She found this foolishly exciting, that it was raining where she was and it was not raining where he was, only minutes from her, and so she waited, with impatience, with a charged delight, until they could both see the rain together.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah (Ala Notable Books for Adults)
Tagged: Love, Distance, Nature, Relationships
“Marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 15 quotes from Chimamanda Adichie that have changed the way I look at social issues
Tagged: Marriage, Competition, gender roles, Womanhood, Equality, sexuality
“Ginika told her that ‘fat’ in America was a bad word, heaving with moral judgement like ‘stupid’ or ‘bastard,’ and not a mere description liked ‘short’ or ‘tall.’ So, she had banished the word ‘fat’ from her vocabulary…She said the word ‘fat’ slowly, funneling it back and forward, and thought about all the other things she had learned not to say aloud in America.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
Tagged: fat, size, heavy, Weight
“Now girls are often raised to see love only as giving. Women are praised for their love when that love is an act of giving. But to love is to give AND to take. Please love by giving, and by taking. Give and be given. If you are only giving and not taking, you’ll know. You’ll know from that small and true voice inside you that we females are so often socialized to silence. Don’t silence that voice. Dare to take.”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Grads: Make Feminism an Inclusive Party
Tagged: Love, Dating Advice, Love Yourself, Self-Worth
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