Jenni Williams Quotes

Any institution that claims to keep women locked up for their own good should be watched very close, in my opinion.

I was empty, just a thing for gathering dust, and now I am full of something, and if that causes me to make poor decisions, then I will live with it. Or die with it. I don't care.

Judging by the constellations just starting to glint into life, the scent of the wind and the texture of the earth... I would say we're precisely in the middle of nowhere.

There was too much, but every moment they were inside she was aware of the terrible danger they were in, and she had the distinct sense that her luck was now the thinnest piece of fragile ice, and they were edging out further and further over and abyss.

A fire that burns in secret, a lethal conflagration that you can only discover when its too late to save anyone.

To be suddenly alone when all you have ever known is connection. To be alone in the dark while you felt the distant pieces of yourself decay.

Show me a people who don't have a bloody history.

Dark things are happening here, don't be getting me wrong. Young people lost, their poor families going out of their minds, and that evil thing lurking... It should have been dealt with a long time ago, but how could we have known?

In Africa, women are regarded as second class citizens and women like me who ‘don’t know their place’ are also a target.

The struggle for women's rights in Zimbabwe continues and needs to be heard by the men who are mismanaging this country.

All people need, in my experience, is a little push in the right direction. Or a giant kick up the arse. I am always happy to provide either.

We formed WOZA as a movement to show a peaceful way women of all colours and class could restore dignity for the people of Zimbabwe.

Because whoever it is, I’m sure I’ve already forgotten them. I can barely keep track of your brief human lives, you know here one moment gone the next. I should keep a list, so I can tick the names off as they depart.

Beginnings are very elusive things, almost as elusive as true endings.

I can suffer all that, I can suffer it and come through stronger, a weapon forged for your hand, but I cannot abide inefficiency.