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We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

An essay on the idea of “what does feminism mean today?” and why we should all be feminists.

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Noteworthy excerpts:

"Gender matters everywhere in the world. And I would like today to ask that we should begin to dream and plan for a different world. A fairer world. A world of happier men and women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: we must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently."

"What if, in raising children, we focus on ability instead of gender? What if we focus on interest instead of gender?"

"I was once talking about gender and a man said to me, ‘Why does it have to be you as a woman? Why not you as a human being?’ This type of question is a way of silencing a person’s specific experiences. Of course I am a human being, but there are particular things that happen to me in the world because I am a woman."

“Culture functions ultimately to ensure the preservation and continuity of a people...Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.”

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