It was not as if he did not know what living in Lagos could do to a woman married to a young and wealthy man, how easy it was to slip into paranoid about ‘Lagos girls,’ those sophisticated monsters of glamour who swallowed husbands whole, slithering them down their throats.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Inspirational for Women Hard Hitting Rights Women Empowerment

You deserve to take up space.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Inspirational for Women Self-Love Acceptance Individuality Rights

I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
About Stories

Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in real African culture, before it was tainted by the West, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I didn’t know I was even supposed to HAVE issues until I came to America.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If you followed the media you’d think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that’s not the case; so it’s important to engage with the other Africa.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Racism should never have happened and so you don’t get a cookie for reducing it.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
About Stories

Race doesn’t really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don’t have that choice.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I have many problems in my life, but I don’t think that identity is one of them.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it into a prosaic partnership.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I don’t believe that art and politics or social issues must be separated. In writing about marriage, for example, money can be a big factor, and money is linked to earning, and earning is influenced by politics.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I think human beings exist in a social world. I write realistic fiction, and so it isn’t that surprising that the social realities of their existence would be part of the story.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I am interested in challenging the mainstream ideas of what is beautiful and what is acceptable.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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