Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie doesn’t mind if you don’t like her. Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Dawani Olatunde)Too many women worry about being liked, she says, and that’s not only misguided, but also damaging. “Someone will like you anyway.”Millions of people like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie anyway. [Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Color of an Awkward Conversation]“Gender roles are so deeply conditioned in us that we will often follow them even when they chafe against our true desires, our needs, our happiness,” she writes. Nora Krug is an editor and writer at Book World.

Source: Washington Post March 08, 2017 18:44 UTC