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I am just as human as the man.

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She had come to understand that American parenting was a juggling of anxieties, and that it came with having too much food: a sated belly gave America...more

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The longer she spent in America, the better she had become at distinguishing, sometimes from looks and gait, but mostly from bearing and demeanor, tha...more

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The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we ´should' be rather than recognizing how we are.

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The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership.

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Today, we live in a vastly different world. The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the m...more

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Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to talk about ge...more

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​If we do something over and over again, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over again, it becomes normal. If only boys are made cla...more

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Some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how female apes bow to male apes - that sort of thing. But the point is this: we are not apes...more

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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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Now 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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We're all social beings. We internalize ideas from our socialization.

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Some people will say, “Oh, but women have the real power, bottom power.” And for non-Nigerians, “bottom power” is an expression in which I suppose mea...more

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Foreign behavior? What the fuck are you talking about? Foreign behavior? Have you read Things Fall Apart? Ifemulu asked, wishing she had not told Rany...more

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They never said “I don’t know.” They said, instead, “I’m not sure,” which did not give any information but still suggested the possibility of knowledg...more