"There is a greater truth than mine, there is a truth of Namibian History… I was there also. This is my story."

"This book is dedicated to the women who made me what I am today. My maternal great grand mother, my Herero and Damara…"

"My wonderful mother, Charlotte Schimming, my role model, who taught her daughters to always recognize their own work …"

"And to my father Otto Ferdinand Schimming the greatest gender sensitive man I have ever known whose contribution to t…"

"I was born on the 2nd of December 1940 (or so we all agreed) until I was twenty years old when we realized that that …"

"So I celebrated my 21st birthday on the 1st of December, for the first time. I was the 5th of eight children, four bo…"

"As has been and still is the practice in our black communities, we were not the only ones. My cousins, the sons of my…"

"I grew up in this large family with the good and the bad and yet looking back seventy plus years, the good memories a…"

"My mother did not believe in ‘I am the person, I can do that’, she was a very strong willed, active woman, and she wo…"

"She made it always look as if my father was the boss, but even if it came to petty cash, my mother used to hold the p…"