"The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations."

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Source : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.18, Vintage

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#Self Quotes #Expectations Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they work with you only in English. But I'm proud to be Latina, and most people don't know I am.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Hey Mantle, you win. You're the worst.”
“I do not let a bad score ruin my enjoyment for golf.”
“I suddenly discovered that acting made girls notice me.”
“We find what we expect to find. We do not see the world as it is but as we are.”
“It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.”
“I would love for film to go back to those days where you had to be able to do everything just to get by.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Creating is no problem - problem solving is not creating.”

Source : Robert Fritz (2014). “The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life”, p.31, Butterworth-Heinemann

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