Tsitsi Dangarembga Quotes

#1. Everything about her spoke of alternatives and possibilities that if considered too deeply would wreak havoc with the neat plan I had laid out for my life.

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#2. Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.

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#3. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception ... you see what is, where most people see what they expect.

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#4. The victimisation, I saw, was universal. It didn't depend on poverty, on lack of education or on tradition. It didn't depend on any of the things I had thought it depended on. Men took it everywhere with them.

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#5. Words like 'always' and 'never' were meaningful to my father, who thought in absolutes and whose mind consequently made great leaps in antagonistic directions when it leapt at all.

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#6. You can't go on all the time being whatever's necessary. Youve got to have some conviction, and I'm convinced I don't want to be anyone's underdog.

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#7. She thinks she is white,' they used to sneer, and that was as bad as a curse.

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#8. This business of womanhood is a heavy burden.

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#9. If someone smiles at you it does not mean they're happy. It just means "I think that if I smile I might get out of this alive!"

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#10. We co-existed in peaceful detachment

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#11. It's bad enough ... when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That's the end, really, that's the end.

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#12. I was not sorry when my brother died

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