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The women are experts at waiting - for husbands, for rain, for unborn children.

— Lauretta Ngcobo And They Didn't Die (1990)

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It galled him that anybody should think him inferior.

And They Didn't Die (1990)

Yet, he knew that he did not understand anything about the place or its people or its problems.

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And we do not want passes. They have enslaved our men—and we do not want to carry them.

And They Didn't Die (1990)

He said it all depended on his employer; but what did his employer know about her, or her body or their need for a baby? How could he plan their life without them?

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From the day whe arrived at her husband's home, no one called her by her name.

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