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Lauretta Ngcobo Quotes

1931–2015 South Africa

Lauretta Ngcobo (13 September 1931 – 3 November 2015) was a South African novelist and essayist.

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It galled him that anybody should think him inferior.

And They Didn't Die (1990)

Yet, he knew that he did not understand anything about the place or its people or its problems.

And They Didn't Die (1990)

And we do not want passes. They have enslaved our men—and we do not want to carry them.

And They Didn't Die (1990)

He said it all depended on his employer; but what did his employer know about her, or her body or their need for a baby? How could he plan their life without them?

And They Didn't Die (1990)

The women are experts at waiting - for husbands, for rain, for unborn children.

And They Didn't Die (1990)

From the day whe arrived at her husband's home, no one called her by her name.

And They Didn't Die (1990)

In one convulsive moment Zenzile died.

And They Didn't Die (1990)

Things in the country moved at a snail's pace, but they did arrive in the end, and when they did they would crash in fury over people's heads

And They Didn't Die (1990)

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