Lauretta Ngcobo

Lauretta Ngcobo (13 September 1931 – 3 November 2015) was a South African novelist and essayist. Quotes And They Didn't Die (1990) From the day whe arrived at her husband's home, no one called her by her name. The women are experts at waiting - for husbands, for rain, for unborn children. Yet, he knew that he did not understand anything about the place or its people or its problems. Chapter 1, pg. 1 He said it all depended on his employer; but what did his employer know about her, or her body or their need for a baby? How could he plan their life without them? Chapter 1, pg. 7 It galled him that anybody should think him inferior. Chapter 3, pg. 36 Things in the country moved at a snail's pace, but they did arrive in the end, and when they did they would crash in fury over people's heads Chapter 4, pg. 51 In one convulsive moment Zenzile died. Chapter 5, pg. 59 And we do not want passes. They have enslaved our men—and we do not want to carry them. Chapter 7, pg. 81 External links And They Didn't Die Bookrags Category:1931 births Category:2015 deaths Category:Novelists from South Africa Category:Essayists from South Africa Category:Feminists Category:Children's authors Category:Women authors from South Africa Category:Women born in the 1930s