"We Should All Be Feminists" Quotes
"We Should All Be Feminists" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie argues for a more inclusive and equitable understanding of feminism in the 21st century, urging everyone to embrace gender equality.
nonfiction | 52 pages | Published in 2014
Quotes
Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice.
We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller.
We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much.
Feminism is part of human rights in general.
Culture does not make people. People make culture.
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are.
A feminist is a man or a woman who says, ‘Yes, there’s a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better.’
We raise girls to see each other as competitors, not for jobs or for accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men.
The person more likely to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more creative person.
We must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently.
