Yvonne Vera

Quotes

• “"If speaking is still difficult to negotiate, then writing has created a free space for most women -much freer than speech. The book is bound, circulated, read. It retains its autonomy much more than a woman is allowed in the oral situation."”
• “The work is not their own: it is summoned. The time is not theirs: it is seized. The ordeal is their own.”
• “If not freedom then rhythm.”
• “Fumbatha could never be the beginning or end of all her yearning.”

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