Month: November 2025

America is so provincial, like an enormous giant of a man from a bush village who blunders about with supreme certainty, not knowing he is bush because he is blinded by his strength.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Misery always had seemed a big dramatic emotion but I knew now that it was small and slow-dripping, a shallow submerging that felt eternal.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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If you live your life and die without one person fully knowing you then have you even lived?

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Arrogance in women has the possibility of excitement, because it is subversive, but in men it is always reactionary, and therefore boring, especially arrogance of the chivalrous kind, that noblesse oblige of the stronger sex.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Money is an armor and it is a porous amour. It shields you, feeds you the potent drug of independence, grants you time and choices.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Don’t pretend that you like the life you are living.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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She was a thing, a thing to own and invade and discard, and this frightened her.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Does it help to know that the world is full of people who are sadder than you?

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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How slippery moralities are, how they circle and thin and change with circumstance.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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I did want a husband and child, but not under any circumstances. I didn’t want to be single, but being single was not intolerable.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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