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Quotes from Living Loving and Lying Awake at Night — Sindiwe Magona

born 1943 South Africa

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Instead of being kind and buying this and that for the maid, just translate the kindness to this woman’s wages […]

Living Loving and Lying Awake at Night (1991)

Today, no one knows the name of the little girl found in a rubbish drum at the back of the butcher’s shop. They don’t know it today, for they never knew it then

Living Loving and Lying Awake at Night (1991)

She would fulfil her obligations as she understood them and provide for them. The only way she could be a mother to her children, she saw, would be to leave them

Living Loving and Lying Awake at Night (1991)

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