# Nadine Gordimer

- Quotes: 15
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadine-gordimer

## Books

- [Burger's Daughter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadine-gordimer/burgers-daughter.md) — 15 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> But there's no indemnity. You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.

p. 296 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadine-gordimer/burgers-daughter/but-theres-no-indemnity.md)

> Communists are the last optimists.

p. 42 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadine-gordimer/burgers-daughter/communists-are-the.md)

> There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because no one knows what they will be.

p. 15 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadine-gordimer/burgers-daughter/there-are-always.md)

> The main reason why we're still where we are is blacks haven't united as blacks because we're told all the time to do it is to be racist.

p. 163 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadine-gordimer/burgers-daughter/the-main-reason.md)

> Flora pretended to cuddle me against the cold, but I didn't need her kind of emotional excitation. She talked about 'the girls' in there, and my mother was one of them.

p. 15 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadine-gordimer/burgers-daughter/flora-pretended-to-cuddle.md)

> Strong emotion - faith? - has different ways of being manifested among the different disciples within which people order their behaviour.

p. 33 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadine-gordimer/burgers-daughter/strong-emotion-faith.md)

> When the body is no longer an attraction, an expression of desire, to bare your breasts and belly is simple; you lay like dogs or cats grateful for the sun.

p. 239 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadine-gordimer/burgers-daughter/when-the-body.md)

> It'll be enough to take your mind off your stomach. - When lovers cannot touch, they tease each other instead.

p. 298 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadine-gordimer/burgers-daughter/itll-be-enough.md)

> Our liberation cannot be divorced from black consciousness because we cannot be conscious of ourselves and at the same time remain slaves -

p. 164 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadine-gordimer/burgers-daughter/our-liberation-cannot.md)

> The will is my own. The emotion's my own. The right to be inconsolable. When I feel, there's no 'we', only 'I'.

p. 52 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadine-gordimer/burgers-daughter/the-will-is-my-own.md)

> Conrad went off some evenings for Spanish lessons and sometimes came back with the girl who taught him.

p. 40 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadine-gordimer/burgers-daughter/conrad-went-off.md)

> Among the group of people waiting at the fortress was a schoolgirl in a brown and yellow uniform holding a green eiderdown quilt and, by the loop at its neck, a red hot-water bottle. (First lines)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadine-gordimer/burgers-daughter/among-the-group.md)