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

The writers in Zimbabwe were also [like the characters in the literature they produced] basically men at the time.

How about forgetting? you say. Sometimes forgetting is better than remembering when nothing can be done. Forgetting is harder than you think, says Nyasha. Especially when something can be done. And ought to be. It's a question of choices.

I realize that creative women often do not fit easily into certain paradigms. I think to myself, Then where do they go? Where do they go? Because I feel that these women have so much to contribute, that they just see things in a different way. Every society has people like that and marginalizes them in some way. So it’s a very difficult situation.