"The size of our hips, our style, our swag, it becomes co-opted but then we are demonised... My advice to young women is that you have to start by getting those demons out of your head. The questions I ask myself — "am I good enough?" — that haunts us, because the messages that are sent from the time we are little is: maybe you are not, don't reach too high, don't talk too loud."
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Lawyers from IllinoisEducators from the United StatesUnited States First ladiesPoliticians from ChicagoWomen in law
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Interview with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (3 December 2018)
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