![]() This is the only necessary form of humility: the realisation that difference is normal. ![]() Teach her that her standards are for her alone, and not for other people. Teach her never to universalise her own standards or experiences. Dear Ijeawele, Or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. She grew up on the campus of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where her father was a professor and her mother was the first female Registrar. Both religion and science have spaces for the things we do not know, and it is enough to make peace with that. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Enugu, Nigeria in 1977. Teach her that we do not know – we cannot know – everything about life. A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. She must know and understand that people walk different paths in the world and that as long as those paths do no harm to others, they are valid paths that she must respect. From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today-written as a letter to a friend. ![]() ![]() And by teaching her about difference, you are equipping her to survive in a diverse world. Because difference is the reality of our world. And the reason for this is not to be fair or to be nice but merely to be human and practical. Teach her not to attach value to difference. ![]()
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