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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes: 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.
         

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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