"This business of womanhood is a heavy burden."

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Source : 1988 Nervous Conditions, ch.1.

Tsitsi Dangarembga

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“One of the secrets to success is ideas mixed with inspiration”
“The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions.”
“They have decided to tour under the name of Ten Years After which I don't think is very cool. To be honest, they have had to do that as it's the only way they can get any work.”
“The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride; The threshold high enough to turn deceit aside; The doorband strong enough from robbers to defend; This door will open at a touch to welcome every friend.”
“Talk about divine intervention. I can't even tell you how blessed I feel.”
“The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English, the French and the Russian -- all took place in societies where the rate of literacy was approaching 50 per cent. Literacy had a profound effect on the peasant mind and community. It promotes abstract thought and enables the peasant to master new skills and technologies, Which in turn helps him to accept the concept of progress that fuels change in the modern world.”
“Film-making is like spermatozoa: only one in a million makes it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.”

Source : Claude Bernard, Eugene Debs Robin (1979). “Claude Bernard and the internal environment: a memorial symposium”

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