You should read this beautiful essay Adichie wrote in support of Hilary Clinton

Award-winning Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has written a beautiful essay to support Hilary Clinton's presidential candidacy.

In a piece published on The Atlantic, Adichie described Clinton as a woman full of dreams.

"She had made sacrifices for the man she loved, waived her plans, and moved to his state. But she also dared to think herself her husband’s equal, to assume herself competent enough to take on expanding access to healthcare and reforming the Arkansas public education system. She was guilty of not being a traditional first lady. She offended the old patriarchal order. The conservative media loathed her."

She adds: "Because Hillary Clinton is a woman, she is judged too harshly for doing what most politicians do—hedging sometimes, waffling sometimes, evading sometimes. Politicians are ambitious; they have to be. Yet for Hillary Clinton, ambition is often an accusation. She is held responsible for her husband’s personal failings, in the gendered assumption that a wife is somehow an adult and a husband a child."

Yet millions of Americans, women and men, love her intelligence, her industriousness, her grit; they feel loyal to her, they will vote with enthusiasm for her.

You can read the full essay on The Atlantic.

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