![]() ![]() She has spoken often about the pleasure she takes in fashion, and she is the face of Boots No7, a makeup brand. Adichie, 39, is warm and thoughtful, and also distinctly glamorous. Adichie’s previous work but that it was “more personal, more urgent.” I matter equally.” The Washington Post wrote that much of the book would be familiar to readers of Ms. ![]() “Teach her to love books” “never speak of marriage as an achievement” “‘because you are a girl’ is never a reason for anything.” The premise of feminism, Ms. Written as a letter to a friend, the book offers a set of guidelines for how to raise a feminist daughter. Adichie’s latest book, “ Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions ,” is a 63-page blueprint for achieving that reality. “I’m not going to have my daughter have that kind of shame,” she said. Adichie never fully understood the shame that was supposed to usher in womanhood, which made her hide her pads and made her friends apologize to boyfriends for having periods at all. “My mother taught me to go burn them in the backyard when nobody’s looking.” ![]() “‘What are you doing with your menstrual pads?’” she whispers. In a recent interview in New York, she leaned in to mimic her mother’s voice. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of “Americanah” and “We Should All Be Feminists ,” remembers the hushed tones that accompanied her first period. ![]()
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