Alexandra Fuller

“Motherhood—the way too many of us do it alone now—without an exaltation of female relatives, without a heft of knowing matrons to…

— Alexandra Fuller

There aren't enough doctors in Africa. Those who choose to become doctors here don't do it for the money or because they…

— Alexandra Fuller

In southern and central Africa, tragedy roared at us, and we roared back. We shared dramas publicly, bled them on the corridors…

— Alexandra Fuller

I had the constitution of a missionary.

— Alexandra Fuller

There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful…

— Alexandra Fuller

I love my mother so much, because I see the whole of her.

— Alexandra Fuller

I look around and pay attention to what around me is not being talked about, and then I talk about it with…

— Alexandra Fuller

“The flowers for the wedding have been done by a drunken homosexual from the Copperbelt. His flower arrangements, his way of life,…

— Alexandra Fuller

FBI Girl is a gorgeous, sumptuous book. Conlon-McIvor takes a subject (herself and her family) that might have sunk in other hands,…

— Alexandra Fuller

The belief that we can be done with our past is a myth.

— Alexandra Fuller

“This is the Tree of Forgetfulness. All the headmen here plant one of these trees in the village. They say ancestors stay…

— Alexandra Fuller

“She treated Vanessa and me as if we were visiting budgerigars that needed to be fed and then put somewhere dark for…

— Alexandra Fuller

“It was the time of night that precedes dawn and is without perspective or reason. It was the hour when regret and…

— Alexandra Fuller

“It should not be possible to get from the banks of the Pepani River to Wyoming in less than two days, because…

— Alexandra Fuller