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Tsitsi Dangarembga Quotes

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect.

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect.

Tsitsi Dangarembga
People, Perception, Observation

This business of womanhood is a heavy burden.

Tsitsi Dangarembga
Burden, Heavy, Heavy Burdens
1988 Nervous Conditions, ch.1.

It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.

Tsitsi Dangarembga
Country, People, Enough

Everything about her spoke of alternatives and possibilities that if considered too deeply would wreak havoc with the neat plan I had laid out for my life.

Tsitsi Dangarembga
Alternatives, Possibility, Havoc

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
Mother, Husband, Book

I was not sorry when my brother died.

Tsitsi Dangarembga
Brother, Sorry, Died
"Nervous Conditions". Book by Tsitsi Dangarembga, 1988.

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