Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

  We Should All Be Feminists—April 12, 2013

  • Sex

• Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage.

  We Should All Be Feminists (2014)

  • Men

• A man who would be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in.

  We Should All Be Feminists—April 12, 2013

  • Men

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