Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - We Should All Be Feminists (2014)

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I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else.

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

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I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.

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Culture does not make people. People make culture.

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For centuries, the world divided human beings into two groups and then proceeded to exclude and oppress one group. It is only fair that the solution to the problem acknowledge that.

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We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are. If we have sons, we don't mind knowing about our sons' girlfriends, but our daughters' boyfriends? God forbid. But of course when the time is right, we expect those girls to bring back the perfect man to be their husband.

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We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.

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Because I am female, I'm expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important.

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Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

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