"Burger's Daughter" Quotes
"Burger's Daughter" by Nadine Gordimer explores the life of Rosa Burger as she navigates her identity and political legacy in apartheid South Africa.
fiction | 368 pages | Published in 1980
Quotes
Even when you are silent, even when you are alone, you are aware of yourself as a being in a particular place.
What you can’t get over is that you’re not indispensable.
The ultimate requirement of a revolution is the sacrifice of the self.
Time is not a thing that passes, it’s a sea on which you float.
I am what I am because of who we all are.
There is only one way to deal with power and that is to become it.
Memory is a mirror clouded with tears.
Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do what you ought.
In silence, there are answers.
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.





