“ There are real consequences when women speak out. It's really dangerous, and it takes real courage. We are still speaking out against a white male majority. Forget the glass ceiling. We haven't even b… Alexandra Fuller
“ I don't know if it's just my age or the climate or the high altitude or some of those old-cowboy values rubbing off on me, but I've grown slightly mellower living in Wyoming. I think if you ride into… Alexandra Fuller
“ I think there's a big difference between loving someone out of duty and dependency and loving someone because you really are able to sort of grow and be whole in the context of that relationship. Alexandra Fuller
“ I adore my family. I don't love their politics. I think they're wonderful parents. They were dreadful at parenting. Alexandra Fuller
“ In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious tragedy. Alexandra Fuller
“ The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty. Alexandra Fuller
“ I have heard over and over again that the drilling business is a dangerous business, and death is an expected part of the game, but I've also heard of the way that safety violations, human and environ… Alexandra Fuller
“ Yes, as an oppressed people, American Indians have this epic burden, but first and foremost, they're human: sometimes a mess, sometimes funny or sad, at times very wise, and other times not wise at al… Alexandra Fuller
“ Stand unshod upon it for the ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator, Alan Paton wrote. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man i… Alexandra Fuller
“ The schools wear the blank faces of war buildings, their windows blown blind by rocks or guns or mortars. Their plaster is an acne of bullet marks. The huts and small houses crouch open and vulnerable… Alexandra Fuller
“ It is the deep-black-sky quiet time of night, which is the halfway time between the sun setting and the sun rising when even the night animals are quiet—as if they, like day animals, take a break in t… Alexandra Fuller
“ It was the time of night that precedes dawn and is without perspective or reason. It was the hour when regret and fear overwhelm hope and courage and when all that is ugly in us is magnified and when… Alexandra Fuller
“ There is only one time of absolute silence. Halfway between the dark of night and the light of morning, all animals and crickets and birds fall into a profound silence as if pressed quiet by the deep… Alexandra Fuller
“ The doctor in Murare is old - old for anybody. He is especially old for a doctor and especially old for an African. But he doesn´t have the luxury of retirement to look forward to. There aren´t enough… Alexandra Fuller
“ The two of us lurching on an unlikely journey up a lonely road in the dark, thick beginning of a Mozambique night. As our pickup churned over rocks and through thick sand, the engine drowned out the n… Alexandra Fuller
“ It was a land of almost breathtaking beauty or of savage poverty; a land of screaming ghosts or of sun-flung possibilities; a land of inviting warmth or of desperate drought. How you see a country dep… Alexandra Fuller
“ You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving. Alexandra Fuller
“ She treated Vanessa and me as if we were visiting budgerigars that needed to be fed and then put somewhere dark for the night. Alexandra Fuller
“ You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories contract until only the nuggets of hatred remain and no one can even remember,… Alexandra Fuller
