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Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.

— Tsitsi Dangarembga

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I have seen enough to know that blame does not come in neatly packaged parcels.

Nervous Conditions (1988)

You had to know the facts if you were ever going to find the solutions.

Nervous Conditions (1988)

The writers in Zimbabwe were also [like the characters in the literature they produced] basically men at the time.

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

This Mournable Body (2018)

Keening. I remember keening that seemed to go on all through the night: shrill, sharp, shiny, needless of sound piercing cleanly and deeply to let the anguish in, not out.

Nervous Conditions (1988)

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There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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