Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Tsitsi Dangarembga

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga.

Last updated on April 16, 2025.

Tsitsi Dangarembga is a Zimbabwean novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Her debut novel, Nervous Conditions (1988), which was the first to be published in English by a Black woman from Zimbabwe, was named by the BBC in 2018 as one of the top 100 books that have shaped the world. In 2020, her novel This Mournable Body was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Zimbabwean - Novelist | Born: 1959

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I was not sorry when my brother died.

Tsitsi Dangarembga

It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.

Tsitsi Dangarembga

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect.

Tsitsi Dangarembga

This business of womanhood is a heavy burden.

Tsitsi Dangarembga

Everything about her spoke of alternatives and possibilities that if considered too deeply would wreak havoc with the neat plan I had laid out for my life.

Tsitsi Dangarembga

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

Tsitsi Dangarembga