The award winning writer talks about her journey as a writer, her devotion of feminism and more ... In an interesting interview below
The oppression if woman, she says,
"Makes me angry. I cannot be angry. I
don't know how you can just be calm.
My family says to me, 'Oh, you are
such a man!' -you know, very
lovingly... But of course I'm not, I just
don't see why I shouldn't speak my
mind." She got into trouble for
speaking her mind in Nigeria: when an
interviewer addressed her as Mrs
Chimamanda Adichie, she corrected
him, saying she wished to be known
as "Ms," which the journalist
reported as Miss".
Her insistence on her own family
name was all over the news last
spring. She should be happy to be
addressed as "Mrs", she was told,
since she was, after all, married. She
laughs now, but it's clear the story
still disturbs her. "It was the lack of
gratitude on my part for having a
husband. And yet I didn't want to
proclaim it: I wanted to claim my own
name."
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