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"Femelu could not understand this, her mother's ability to tell herself stories about her reality that did not even resemble her reality."
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"When you leave a port, ask yourself two questions: What mark you have made on that port and what have you learned from that port?"
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Personal Development

"The laws is not meant to destroy us. But our disobedience leads to our own destruction."
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Personal Development

"Whether you are aware of it or not, your life is still disappearing. It's pouring out, it keeps diminishing."
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Personal Development

"You never know what people have endured to get where they are."
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"Why do you compare yourself to others? Can you carry weight of others on your shoulders?"
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"Everyone should think about why certain undesirable situations occur in life."
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Personal Development

"Knowing my soul is my lifetime-study."
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Personal Development

"What you are seeking is yourself."
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Personal Development

"Life is head and shoulders above all other things we regard as precious in this world."
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"The world is full of vanities."
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"You could have just said Ngozi is your tribal name and Ifemelu is your jungle name and throw in one more as your spiritual name. They'll believe all kinds of shit about Africa."
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"The Red Cross irritated Ugwu, the least they could do was ask Biafrans their preferred foods rather than sending so much bland flour."
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"Make dressing a question of taste and attractiveness instead of a question of morality."
Lifestyle

"She cries quietly, her shoulders heaving up and down, not the kind of loud sobbing that the women Chika knows do, the kind that screams Hold me and comfort me because I cannot deal with this alone. The woman's crying is private, as though she is carrying out a necessary ritual that involves no one else."
Grief

"I am just as human as the man."
Humanity

"A father is as much a verb as a mother."
Relationship

"A man is likely as a woman to be intelligent, innovative and creative. We have evolved. But our ideas of gender have not evolved very much."
Society

"Each time they ignore me, I feel invisible. I want to tell them that I am just as human as the man, just as worthy of acknowledgement. These are the little things, but sometimes it is the little things that sting the most."
Awareness

"Today, we live in a vastly different world. The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative. And there are no hormones for those attributes. A man is as likely as a woman to be intelligent, innovative, creative. We have evolved. But our ideas of gender have not evolved very much."
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"Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender, or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender. Because thinking of changing the status quo is always uncomfortable."
Society
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