Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‘s "BEING A STRONG WOMAN ISN'T REMARKABLE, IT'S NORMAL"

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (via Wellesley College)

Writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie addressed the class of 2015 at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Below, an excerpt of her remarks to the women graduating this year.
May 29, 2015

I wasn’t very interested in makeup until I was in my twenties, which is when I began to wear makeup. Because of a man. A loud, unpleasant man. He was one of the guests at a friend’s dinner party. I was also a guest. I was about 23, but people often told me I looked 12. The conversation at dinner was about traditional Igbo culture, about the custom that allows only men to break the kola nut, and the kola nut is a deeply symbolic part of Igbo cosmology. ...read more>>>

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