All over the world, girls are raised to be make themselves likeable, to twist themselves into shapes that suit other people. 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.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Novelist and essayist
Nigeria · b. 1977
Arts and letters
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Nigerian novelist and essayist, author of Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah and the essays We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele. She began a medical degree in Nigeria before leaving to study in the United States.
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