"What I experienced that day was a short cut, a rerouting of everything I had ever defined as me into fast lanes that …"

"As for my sisters, well, they were there. They were watching me climb into Babamukuru's car to be whisked away to lim…"

"Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegeta…"

"The writers in Zimbabwe were also [like the characters in the literature they produced] basically men at the time."

"The racism in England was not so institutionalized. Well, it was institutionalized, but then it was so efficiently re…"

"I realize that creative women often do not fit easily into certain paradigms. I think to myself, Then where do they g…"

"The skills I had learned for prose didn’t work in film. Those telling details, they’re completely different. Or the f…"

"People who fear greatly can sometimes substitute themselves for the thing they fear"

"Christine has that layer under her skin that cuts off her outside from her inside and allows no communication between…"

"Keening. I remember keening that seemed to go on all through the night: shrill, sharp, shiny, needless of sound pierc…"