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Why should men be brought up with a false sense of superiority over women? People can respect me if they wish, but only if I earn it.

— Bessie Head When Rain Clouds Gather (1968)

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Before the white man became universally disliked for his mental outlook it was there.

Maru (1971)

Above all the necessities of life, human beings need love and it is often the one thing most denied to them.

The Cardinals. With Meditations and Short Stories (1993)

But witch doctors were human, and nothing, however odd and perverse, need be feared if it was human.

When Rain Clouds Gather (1968)

I have always been just me, with no frame of reference to anything beyond myself."

A Woman Alone: Autobiographical Writings (1990)

Whatever my manifold disorders are, I hope to get them sorted out pretty soon, because I've just got to tell a story."

A Woman Alone: Autobiographical Writings (1990)

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There is a Lady sweet and kind,
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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

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

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