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A review by flamepea
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4.0
An incredible short book very relevant to today’s society, it’s very easy to read and too important to miss out on!
Quotes:
“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.”
“Some people ask: ‘Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that’ Because that would be.. a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that problem of gender targets women”
“We teach girls shame. “Close your legs. Cover yourself.” We make them feel as though being born female they’re already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up — and this is the worst thing we do to girls — they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an art form.”
Quotes:
“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.”
“Some people ask: ‘Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that’ Because that would be.. a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that problem of gender targets women”
“We teach girls shame. “Close your legs. Cover yourself.” We make them feel as though being born female they’re already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up — and this is the worst thing we do to girls — they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an art form.”