"Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything."

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Source : Speech at Wellesley College, time.com. 2015.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#Reason Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“Baathism in Iraq equals Nazism in Germany.”
“The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.”
“It was all to do with the change of producer as well as political reasons I don't really comprehend.”
“Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.”
“I have high-tech tastes. If I had $100 million, I would spend it on research equipment rather than a yacht.”
“In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people.”

Source : "The Robertson Treatment Syndicated Column (Rtsc): Q&A Movie Spotlight: Forest". EURWeb Interview, www.eurweb.com. March 18, 2010.
“It occurred to me that there have always been selkie women: women who did not seem to belong to this world, because they did not fit into prevailing notions of what women were supposed to be. And if you did not fit into those notions, in some sense you weren't a woman. Weren't even quite human. The magical animal woman is, or can be, a metaphor for those sorts of women.”
“Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.”

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