Lauretta Ngcobo

Lauretta Ngcobo (13 September 1931 – 3 November 2015) was a South African novelist and essayist.

Quotes

And They Didn't Die (1990)

• 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.
  • Chapter 1, pg. 1

• 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?
  • Chapter 1, pg. 7

• It galled him that anybody should think him inferior.
  • Chapter 3, pg. 36

• 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
  • Chapter 4, pg. 51

• In one convulsive moment Zenzile died.
  • Chapter 5, pg. 59

• And we do not want passes. They have enslaved our men—and we do not want to carry them.
  • Chapter 7, pg. 81

External links

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