A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings. – Nadine Gordimer
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb. – Nadine Gordimer

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings. – Nadine Gordimer
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb. – Nadine Gordimer
Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship. – Nadine Gordimer
The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars. – Nadine Gordimer
I think theres a lot projected on beautiful women, period. At least, maybe this is just my fear, but I do sometimes feel dismissed before Ive even been allowed to participate. I have moments of feeling really wounded. But I am pretty optimistic, and I do enjoy a lot of my life. – Shalom Harlow