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The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we ´should' be rather than recognizing how we are.

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The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership.

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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 m...more

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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 ge...more

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​If we do something over and over again, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over again, it becomes normal. If only boys are made cla...more

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Some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how female apes bow to male apes - that sort of thing. But the point is this: we are not apes...more

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Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations.

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Now imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.

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We're all social beings. We internalize ideas from our socialization.

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Some people will say, “Oh, but women have the real power, bottom power.” And for non-Nigerians, “bottom power” is an expression in which I suppose mea...more

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Ifemelu thought about the expression "sweet girl." Sweet girl meant that, for a long time, Don had molded Ranyinudo into a malleable shape, or that sh...more

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When you want to join a prestigious social club, do you wonder if your race will make it difficult to join? If you do well in a situation, do you expe...more

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Because when there is true equality, resentment does not exist.

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That a woman claims not to be feminist does not diminish the necessity of feminism. If anything, it makes us see the extent of the problem, the succes...more

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Teach her to question men who can have empathy for women only if they see them as relational rather than as individual equal humans.