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Yellow Sun Quotes

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.

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.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Men, Said, Yellow Sun
FaceBook post by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from Aug 18, 2011

There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Unforgivable, Yellow Sun
FaceBook post by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from Dec 04, 2011

Your life belongs to you and you alone.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Feeling Stuck, Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2008). “Half of a Yellow Sun”, p.283, Anchor

Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Trying, Needs, Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2008). “Half of a Yellow Sun”, p.128, Anchor

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