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Quotes from My Son's Story — Nadine Gordimer

1923–2014 South Africa

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6 quotes

She reminds me of pig. Our ancestors didn't eat pig.

My Son's Story (1990)

“[T]he isotopy of fragmentation constitutes a unifying web structurally present at the level of story, text, and narration”

My Son's Story (1990)

propos[ed] a future South Africa, not only on terms of equality of races but of sexes, too”

My Son's Story (1990)

What had Aila done to assuage his anguish at Baby's attempt to end her life before it had begun? Nothing. Silence. Silence upon the other silence. Comfort and understanding he had had to find elsewhere.

My Son's Story (1990)

It was my mother who had talked under interrogation. I know why she did. It was to be sure neither her husband nor I would be held responsible.

My Son's Story (1990)

Odd in-between period which sometimes inserts itself into historical time when not only the later historians but the actors and witnesses, the living themselves, become aware of an interval in time which is altogether determined by things that are no longer and by things that are not yet. In history, these intervals have shown more than once that they may contain the moment of truth.

My Son's Story (1990)

Attribution

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