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“They will ask me when I first knew I was in love with you. I will sign and say I don't know. It happened in fragments, piece by piece, separate moments over the years. Moments - that's how I remember it. They will be surprised when I say you are the only man I have ever loved.”
― Chimeka Garricks, A Broken People's Playlist

“How to explain to him that her mother is a womb and a grave; a cage and a pair of wings; a feeding tube and a noose.”
― Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds

“Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“The knowledge of cooking does not come pre-installed in a vagina.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions