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I think for writers, I think it's really important to court eviction from your tribe: to expose things and to wake people up. And so I think that that can feel like a violation to the people you love the most.

~Alexandra Fuller

Topics: Court Expose Feel Important Like Love Most People Really Things Think Tribe Up Violation Wake Writers You Your I Think

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I remember Karoi as a very hot, flat place, but in reality, it is all hills. We just lived next to an airstrip - the only flat piece of land around. That was my world as a three-year-old and sums up the indelible power of memory to a young child.

~Alexandra Fuller

Topics: Around Child Flat Hills Hot Indelible Just Land Lived Memory Next Only Piece Place Power Reality Remember Sums Up Very World Young Young Child I Remember

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In retrospect, I have come to recognise just how astounding my mother was during our childhood. She kept a woodwork shop and made beautiful furniture, as well as raising the pair of us in a society dominated by men. There really is nothing like war to reveal the power of patriarchy, but she always retained her independence.

~Alexandra Fuller

Topics: Always Astounding Beautiful Childhood Come Dominated Furniture Her How Independence Just Kept Like Made Men Mother Nothing Our Pair Patriarchy Power Raising Really Recognise Retrospect Reveal She Shop Society Us War Well

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I grew up in southern Africa but was born in England, so my family was afflicted with the stiff upper lip of the British. When coupled with the violence we saw as children, that can be a fatal combination. Fortunately, I have an outlet for trauma in my writing.

~Alexandra Fuller

Topics: Afflicted Africa Born British Children Combination Coupled England Family Fatal Fortunately Grew Lip Outlet Saw Southern Stiff Trauma Up Upper Violence Writing

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I adore my family. I don't love their politics. I think they're wonderful parents. They were dreadful at parenting.

~Alexandra Fuller

Topics: Adore Dreadful Family Love Parenting Parents Politics Think Were Wonderful I Think

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I want to make words out of life. That's bigger than me. That's as big a creative force as - bigger than, for me, even having children. That felt more accidental - wonderful, but accidental.

~Alexandra Fuller

Topics: Accidental Big Bigger Children Creative Even Felt Force Having Having Children Life Make Me More Out Than Want Wonderful Words

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I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.

~Alexandra Fuller

Topics: Awful Did Fiction Just Novels Try Were Write Wrote

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Being a white southern African who saw the transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, the sense of being an outsider was absolutely instilled in my limbic system.

~Alexandra Fuller

Topics: Absolutely African Being Instilled Outsider Saw Sense Southern System Transition White Who Zimbabwe

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Being a writer but also having been raised the way I was, I tend to turn to books for answers.

~Alexandra Fuller

Topics: Also Answers Been Being Books Having Raised Tend Turn Way Writer

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Marriage is the trickiest and most basic contract that we have.

~Alexandra Fuller

Topics: Basic Contract Marriage Most

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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