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Lebohang Masango Quotes

Lebohang Masango is an award-winning children’s author, a published social anthropologist, a poet, storyteller and speaker who crafts compelling narratives across several genres.

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Some of the considerations, anxieties and choices that women make in pursuit of this ideal amidst the precariousness that engulfs the majority of our population.

“I’m curious if any young people are finding that it’s changing the way they engage with the world. And is it making them want to find wealthy partners to settle down with? Or are they just continuing with life as normal?

I explore how women in South Africa give meaning to aspiration, romance and love in their pursuit of the soft life: a life free of hardship.

The kind of misogyny that’s levelled specifically against black women and the pervasive attitude that is held by many people, that when it comes to, specifically black women, everyone feels that they have more of a right to be to be scathing and degrading.

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