8 Most Powerful Quotes From Chimamanda Adichie’s Commencement Speech At Wellesley College.
Award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie gave the Commencement Address at Wellesley College’s 137th Commencement on Friday, May 29, 2015. Her speech was all about gender and equality and it is purely awesome!
Below are some of the many and unforgettable great points she made during the speech;
Write television shows in which female strength is not depicted as remarkable but merely normal.Teach your students to see that vulnerability is a HUMAN rather than a FEMALE trait.
I already knew that the world does not extend to women the many small courtesies that it extends to men. I also knew that victimhood is not a virtue. That being discriminated against does not make you somehow morally better.
And I knew that men were not inherently bad or evil. They were merely privileged. And I knew that privilege blinds because it is the nature of privilege to blind.
Commission magazine articles that teach men HOW TO KEEP A WOMAN HAPPY. Because there are already too many articles that tell women how to keep a man happy. And in media interviews make sure fathers are asked how they balance family and work. In this age of ‘parenting as guilt,’ please spread the guilt equally. Make fathers feel as bad as mothers. Make fathers share in the glory of guilt.
Hire more women where there are few. But remember that a woman you hire doesn’t have to be exceptionally good. Like a majority of the men who get hired, she just needs to be good enough.
Please do not twist yourself into shapes to please. Don’t do it. If someone likes that version of you, that version of you that is false and holds back, then they actually just like that twisted shape, and not you. And the world is such a gloriously multifaceted, diverse place that there are people in the world who will like you, the real you, as you are.
Never ever accept ‘Because You Are A Woman’ as a reason for doing anything.
Please love by giving and by taking. Give and be given. If you are only giving and not taking, you’ll know. You’ll know from that small and true voice inside you that we females are so often socialized to silence. Don’t silence that
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