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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus (2003)

Things started to fall apart at home when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion and Papa flung his heavy missal across the room and broke the figurines on the étagère. We had just returned from church. Mama placed the fresh palm fronds, which were wet with holy water, on the dining table and then went upstairs to change. Later, she would knot the palm fronds into sagging cross shapes and hang them on the wall beside our gold-framed family photo. They would stay there until next Ash Wednesday, when we would take the fronds to church, to have them burned for ash. Papa, wearing a long, gray robe like the rest of the oblates, helped distribute ash every year. His line moved the slowest because he pressed hard on each forehead to make a perfect cross with his ash-covered thumb and slowly, meaningfully enunciated every word of “dust and unto dust you shall return.”

Today’s #WomensHistoryMonth highlight is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, an award winning Nigerian novelist, nonfictional writer, story teller, and public speaker. Much of Adichie’s works highlight the dangers of underrepresented cultures and gender construction. One of her most endearing quotes that ended up on Beyonce’s pro-feminist platinum hit single, “Flawless” states: “We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls: ‘You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you will threaten the man’. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage I am expected to make my life choices. Always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now, marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support. But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage. And we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors. Not for jobs or for accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing. But for the attention of men
We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are
Feminist: a person who believes in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes” #Adichie #UltimateBae #WeShouldAllBeFeminists #ReadHerWork #HerStory