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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&love and mutual support. But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage but we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors. Not for jobs or 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 & economic equality of the sexes

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche

(via gilbertkurt)

text  beyonce