Jenni Williams Quotes

This level of fuck up is an Eboran speciality.

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.

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.

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.

What you brought back, darling, was the truth. Which is rarely comfortable and never painless, but often, ultimately, worth knowing.

All of us back together under the same roof - that’s a bloody good end to this mess if you ask me.

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.

It's always the same with family, Wydrin reflected. You spend your life consumed with guilt that you're letting them down somehow, and then when you meet up with them you can't wait to get away again.

I’d burn the bloody tree down myself if u thought it would bring you back’ he said quietly. ‘Everything is so hopeless anyway, why shouldn’t we be happy for a bit? We could have don’t that, couldn’t we? I think so it would have been messy but… Instead my mind gives me this’ He gestured around at the dream desert, the dream sky. ‘A fucking dream of you. As if that would be enough.

Life is suffering. Life is war, and sacrifice. Life is victory.

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.

Our armies, with their shining armour and singing swords are rust and dusty bones. We are like... an echo of something that came before.

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

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.