Laura’s Reviews > Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions > Status Update

"Her job is not to make herself likeable, her job is to be her full self, a self that is honest and aware of the equal humanity of other people."

"Women don't actually need to be championed and revered; they just need to be treated as equal human beings. There is a patronizing undertone to the idea of women needing to be 'championed' and 'revered' because they are women."

"We have been so conditioned to think of power as male that a powerful woman is an aberration. And so she is policed. We ask of powerful women: Is she humble? Does she smile? Is she grateful enough? Does she have a domestic side? Questions we do not ask of powerful men, which shows that our discomfort is not with power itself, but with women."

"Our culture celebrates the idea of women who are able to 'do it all' but does not question the premise of that praise. I have no interest in the debate about women 'doing it all' because it is a debate that assumes that caregiving and domestic work are singularly female domains, an idea that I strongly reject." PREACH.

"She would know this if reading books were not such an alien enterprise to her." Gotta love Adichie's shade.