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Quotes from This Mournable Body — Tsitsi Dangarembga

born 1959 Zimbabwe

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People who fear greatly can sometimes substitute themselves for the thing they fear

This Mournable Body (2018)

“How, with all your education, do you come to be more needy than your mother?”

This Mournable Body (2018)

“What we heard all the time is that you were not working. That's what was said, that that degree of yours was just a piece of paper sitting, silently rotting.

This Mournable Body (2018)

Christine has that layer under her skin that cuts off her outside from her inside and allows no communication between the person she once believed she could be and the person she has in fact become. The one does not acknowledge the other's existence.

This Mournable Body (2018)

“You begin to suspect that Cousin-Brother-in-Law and Nyasha are not being honest, that they found each other because neither possesses the hardiness success requires, so they have dressed discouragement up in the glamour of intellect.”

This Mournable Body (2018)

“You feel you are creeping up over the edge of a precipice and that this cliff beckons you; worse, that you have a secret desire to fall over its edge into oblivion and that there is no way to stop that fall because you are the precipice.”

This Mournable Body (2018)

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