Skip to content

To be dispensable is a woman's worst nightmare and I was beginning to live it.

— Tendai Huchu The Hairdresser of Harare (2010)

Another quote →

Topics

Women

More quotes by Tendai Huchu

I can only say that friendship should rise above man-made laws, which tend to be capricious by their very nature.

The Hairdresser of Harare (2010)

The Magistrate mapped the city through the music he listened to, each song a landmark in the labyrinth of his mind.

The Maestro, The Magistrate & The Mathematician (2014)

Something about the elderly altered the character of a place, civilized it, creating a bridge between past and present, a sense of continuity across generations.

The Maestro, The Magistrate & The Mathematician (2014)

Men don’t take rejection so well. It’s like they’re raised expecting that they can have whatever they want.

The Hairdresser of Harare (2010)

There's only one secret to being a successful hairdresser and I've never withheld it from anyone. Your client should leave the salon feeling like a white woman.

The Hairdresser of Harare (2010)

All Tendai Huchu quotes →

You may also like

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

James Connolly

There is a Lady sweet and kind,
Was never face so pleased my mind;
I did but see her passing by,
And yet I love her till I die.

Thomas Ford

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

Mahatma Gandhi

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Tendai Huchu (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.