"Some people will say, "Oh, but women have the real power, bottom power." And for non-Nigerians, —bottom power— is an expression in which I suppose means something like a woman who uses her sexuality to get favors from men. But —bottom power— is not power at all. Bottom power means that a woman simply has a good root to tap into, from time to time, somebody else's power. And then of course we have to wonder when that somebody else is in a bad mood, or sick, or impotent."

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer of novels, short fiction, and nonfiction. Her work explores identity, gender, migration, and postcolonial experience.

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