There were people thrice her size on the Trenton platform and she looked admiringly at one of them, a woman in a very short skirt. She thought nothing of slender legs shown off in miniskirts—it was safe and easy, after all, to display legs of which the world approved—but the fat woman's act was about the quiet conviction that one shared only with oneself, a sense of rightness that others failed to see.


Americanah (ed. Anchor, 2013) - ISBN: 9780307962126

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

There were people thrice her size on the Trenton platform and she looked admiringly at one of them, a woman in a very short skirt. She thought...

There were people thrice her size on the Trenton platform and she looked admiringly at one of them, a woman in a very short skirt. She thought...

There were people thrice her size on the Trenton platform and she looked admiringly at one of them, a woman in a very short skirt. She thought...

There were people thrice her size on the Trenton platform and she looked admiringly at one of them, a woman in a very short skirt. She thought...