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We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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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.

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“Everyone on Earth, they'd tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

tags: kindness, tolerance

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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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“Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses... swapped back and forth and over again.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

tags: friendship, kindness

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“When a man has everything and does not know what more to do, he tries to teach his donkey to talk.”
― Asne Seirstad, The Bookseller of Kabul

tags: books

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“(Native hygiene was far better than Spanish hygiene. When the Spaniards first arrived in Mexico, natives bearing incense burners were assigned to accompany them wherever they went. The Spaniards thought it was a mark of divine honour. We know from native sources that they found the newcomers’ smell unbearable.) The”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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