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born 1952 South Africa

Gillian Slovo (born 15 March 1952) is a South African-born memoirist, novelist and playwright. She has lived in London since her family was exiled; her mother, anti-apartheid activist Ruth First, was assassinated in 1982 by a parcel bomb sent by the South African Police.

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The consequences of marginalizing people on the basis of what they wear or what they say is very dangerous.

“When you write a memoir you have to think about your responsibility to your audience that you’d be completely honest, and to people in your life. Your honesty is going to affect them.”

Anyone feeling vulnerable can feel attracted to the “idealistic world

“ask questions that they might not be asking of themselves” because as she says

“If our response is to stop people in our societies from saying things they don’t want us to say, we are falling into their trap

The problem is that it’s all fake because they only respect women’s bodies by restricting them to the house and forcing them to cover up, which is not the same as someone choosing to cover up.”

it appears that the appeal is not so much the religious rhetoric but the promise of an alternative to capitalism.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gillian Slovo (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.