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We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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We Should All Be Feminists
by

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Macarena Yannelli's review

Apr 04, 2017

it was amazing

bookshelves: ensayo, feminist, no-ficcion, leidos-en-ingles, must, poc

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Me encanto me encanto me encanto.
La autora es una escritora clara y apasionada. La conocía por su libro Americanah pero hoy justo estaba de oferta este libro en Amazon y me anime a comprarlo, y no me decepcionó.
Una lectura corta sobre el feminismo y la desigualdad de género, tanto en el mundo como en Nigeria (el país de la autora).
Hubo una sola cosa donde no estuve de acuerdo (en un momento donde hablaba sobre sexo y decía: "la pérdida de virginidad es un proceso que usualmente involucra dos personas del sexo opuesto". Acá sentí que estaba dejando de lado a la comunidad LGBT+ peeeero por otro lado dice "usualmente", mmhm y también venía hablando sobre hombres y mujeres de una manera muy binaria por lo que no está muy fuera de lugar hablar solamente de relaciones sexuales hetero, además teniendo en cuenta que existe la concepción machista que "se pierde" la virginidad tan solo al haber penetración, por lo que tampoco me pareció muy malo o fuera de lugar).
Pero en fin, es espectacular. Corto y conciso. Todos deberíamos ser feministas <3

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“course it was angry. Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

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“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 dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general—but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It 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 the problem of gender targets women.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

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“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.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

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“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.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

tags: culture, feminism, gender-equality, humanity, women

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“A woman at a certain age who is unmarried, our society teaches her to see it as a deep personal failure. And a man, after a certain age isn’t married, we just think he hasn’t come around to making his pick.”
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“I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

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“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.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

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“I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

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“The late Kenyan Nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said, the higher you go, the fewer women there are.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

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“A Nigerian acquaintance once asked me if I was worried that men would be intimidated by me. I was not worried at all—it had not even occurred to me to be worried, because a man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

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