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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “You are beautiful. You will find more love than you will need in a lifetime.”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus
    tags: self-love
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “I need to believe in something I never question.”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “Hausa-accented English that reversed P and F, he told us that our pather
    was the best Big Man he had ever seen, the best emfloyer he had ever
    had. Did we know our pather faid his children’s school pees? Did we
    know our pather had helfed his wipe get the messenger job at the Local
    Government oppice? We were lucky to have such a pather.”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus
    tags: humor
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “Women were
    not supposed to know anything at all, since it was the first step toward
    the initiation to manhood.”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus
    tags: feminism
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “My spirit will intercede for you, so that Chukwu will send a good man to take care of you and the children.”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus
    tags: feminism
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  • #6
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “But you are a woman. You do not count.”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus
    tags: feminism
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “Give me both wealth and a child, but if I must choose one, give me a child because when my child grows, so will my wealth.”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus
    tags: chilren, tradition
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “A husband crowns a woman’s life”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus
    tags: feminism, patriachy, womanhood
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “I was aghast that a woman called another woman “my wife.” When I asked, Papa said it was the remnants of ungodly traditions, the idea that it was the family and not the man alone that married a wife, and later Mama whispered, although we were alone in my room, “I am her wife, too, because I am your father’s wife. It shows that she accepts me.”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus
    tags: patriachy, womanhood
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  • #10
    “Do we ever really know what we will do in any situation until the situation presents itself?”
    ― Adebayo Ayobami
    tags: self-examination
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  • #11
    “Even the tongue and the teeth cannot cohabit without fighting”
    ― Adebayo Ayobami
    tags: love, patience, persistence
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  • #12
    “Before you call the snail a weakling, tie your house to your back and carry it around for a week”
    ― Adebayo Ayobami
    tags: judging-others
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  • #13
    “When life laughs at you, you laugh and pretend you are in on the joke”
    ― Adebayo Ayobami
    tags: life
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  • #14
    “Wisdom cannot become so scarce in this world to the point where we have to travel to heaven before we find some”
    ― Adebayo Ayobami
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  • #15
    “I don’t want to eat grass and sand. You know that is what people eat when they don’t have any money”
    ― Adebayo Ayobami
    tags: money, poverty
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  • #16
    “Anger is easier than shame”
    ― Adebayo Ayobami
    tags: anger, shame
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  • #17
    “What would be left of love without truth stretched beyond its limits?”
    ― Adebayo Ayobami
    tags: love, truth
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  • #18
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “But I've never thought of myself as a force to be reckoned with. Maybe I should start thinking of myself that way; maybe I deserve to.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    “I made it fifty-fifty. Which is the cruelest thing you can do to someone you love, give them just enough good to make them stick through a hell of a lot of bad.”
    ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
    tags: cruelty, drama, evelyn-hugo, hell, life, love, taylor-jenkins-reid
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  • #21
    Reni K. Amayo
    “There are things one does not learn simply by being told.”
    ― Reni K. Amayo, Descendants of the First
    tags: experience, learning, lessons
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    Reni K. Amayo
    “Sinai could handle anger, but disappointment was much harder to swallow.”
    ― Reni K. Amayo, Daughters of Nri
    tags: anger, disappointment
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  • #23
    Reni K. Amayo
    “...that it was women who paid for the crimes men committed against them.”
    ― Reni K. Amayo, Daughters of Nri
    tags: feminism, women, women-s-rights
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  • #24
    Reni K. Amayo
    “You cannot buy life, you cannot hide and wait to live it later, you must live, and you must live now, because you have no other choice.”
    ― Reni K. Amayo, Daughters of Nri
    tags: life, life-quotes, living-in-the-present, living-life, living-life-to-the-fullest
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  • #25
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #26
    “Misogyny can push a woman upwards as well as downwards. In either direction, the destination is the same: woman dehumanised.”
    ― Jack Holland, A Brief History of Misogyny
    tags: misogyny, womanhood
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  • #27
    “...romance left you too vulnerable, too exposed to the wanton cruelties of the world.”
    ― Tomi Obaro, Dele Weds Destiny
    tags: romance, vulnerability, vulnerable
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    “Oh, the reckless, unthinking cruelty of children! How they broke their mothers' hearts so casually.”
    ― Tomi Obaro, Dele Weds Destiny
    tags: children, hurt, mothers, mothers-love
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  • #29
    “But marriages were mysterious and private things, even to the people in the marriages themselves. One spouse's perception of how the relationship was fairing could be drastically different from the other spouse's. In marriage, you were ultimately alone together”
    ― Tomi Obaro, Dele Weds Destiny
    tags: marriage, marriage-advice, marriage-humor, marriage-life, marriage-quotes, marriages, spouses
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  • #30
    Akwaeke Emezi
    “Thinking about life's unfairness was a fool's errand. It paralyzed you. It was best to count your blessings and keep it moving”
    ― Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
    tags: life, life-lessons
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