Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.

Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.

To choose to write is to reject silence.

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.

There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.

Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

Culture does not make people. People make culture.

You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?' Aunty Ifeka said. 'Your life belongs to you and you alone.

Peace is possible, and it will take a miracle.

You are the only one who can choose your attitude for you.

Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.

Hardships can harden even the best person.

I’m as forgiving as the wall you hit at two hundred kilometers an hour.

I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.

Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.

It is not our wealth that built our roads, but it is our roads that built our wealth.

Let us pick up our books and pencils. They are our most powerful weapon.

Everybody loves you because you are brilliantly awkward.