Nervous Conditions

by Tsitsi Dangarembga

‘This business of womanhood is a heavy burden’,

I was beginning to suspect that I was not the person I was expected to be, and took it as evidence that somewhere I had taken a wrong turning.

She did not know what essential parts of you stayed behind no matter how violently you tried to dislodge them in order to take them with you.

It’s everything, it’s everywhere. So where do you break out to? You’re just one person and it’s everywhere. So where do you break out to?