Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on reading

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

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

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

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Mark Twain1835–1910Quoting or paraphrasing a Professor Winchester in “Disappearance of Literature”, speech at the Nineteenth Century Club, New York, 20 November 1900, in Mark Twain’s Speeches (1910), ed. William Dean Howells, p. 194

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Mark Twain1835–1910

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin1706–1790

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