"It investigates questions of nationalism, gender and sexuality in the autobiographical texts of Petronella van Heerde…"

"As political scientist De Klerk (1975:xiv) claims, ‘[t]he key to the Afrikaners is Calvinism’ and the strict doctrine…"

"Through focusing on childhood experiences in Kerssnuitsels, marketed as a youth memoir, Van Heerden succeeds to conve…"

"She gave up practicing medicine and came to Harrismith to farm cattle and was legendary among the boere here."

"When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings."

"Darkness began to drink up the last cold light upon the mountainside."

"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them."

"In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include …"

"There is no thermometer for wants!"

"Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed."