Lauretta Ngcobo

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

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

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

"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?"

"It galled him that anybody should think him inferior."

"Things in the country moved at a snail's pace, but they did arrive in the end, and when they did they would crash in fury over people's heads"

"In one convulsive moment Zenzile died."

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