I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
Nadine GordimerWhat is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.
Nadine GordimerWritten words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
Nadine GordimerAnd this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the British elite in this country: Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.
Nadine Gordimer