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" The life of the President's First Lady would not have been for me. And I don't know how I would have been as a housewife. "

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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" We talk of a rainbow nation - in a country that remains dichotomized between black and white. We must acknowledge that the rainbow, in fact, is still a dream. "

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" To me, David Astor was a freedom fighter. To me, he wasn't just a journalist; he was a freedom fighter. "

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" I wanted to be a doctor at some point, and I was always bringing home strays from school: people who were too poor to pay fees or have food. My parents never rebuked me or told me that they were hard-pressed, too. "

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" No one under international copyright law has the right to depict me or my husband without our consent. I have been surprised by the many people, particularly Americans, who are either writing books or going to produce films about the Mandela family without even bothering to consult us. "

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" We should have sent the apartheid monsters to jail, not let them off with an amnesty. "

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" I was so hooked by the fight for freedom that nothing mattered to us so long as we fulfilled the dream of years and years of our people being liberated. I thought normal life would come the day after. "

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" The years of imprisonment hardened me... Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next blow, your emotions wouldn't be blunted as they have been in my case. When it happens every day of your life, when that pain becomes a way of life... there is no longer anything I can fear. "

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" I was married to the ANC. It was the best marriage I ever had. "

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" I often wonder why I attract so much criticism. "

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

" It dawned on me then that you either had to survive apartheid, or you had to perish with it. And I decided to survive. "

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" I am not sorry. I will never be sorry. I would do everything I did again if I had to. Everything. "

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

" We shall liberate our country. "

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" I am not the sort of person to carry beautiful flowers and be an ornament to everyone. "

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

" Those 18 months in solitary confinement... bruised my soul. If I had had a weapon, I would have fought my way out. "

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

" When I was born, my mother was very disappointed. She wanted a son. I knew that from a very early age. So I was a tomboy. "

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

" This name Mandela is an albatross around the necks of my family. "

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" Nelson was locked up on Robben Island, and wives like me had been warned we would bring our husbands home as corpses from that place. But I always believed he would be released. It was my duty to have a home ready for us. "

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

" I don't say we should have performed miracles, but surely there ought to have been a difference between the apartheid regime and governance of the ANC after 17 years. "

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

" I learned to deal with the police... to be tough... to survive. "

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

" My continent knows more about me than I do myself. "

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" Politicians are not lovers. "

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" One of the greatest things I fear is letting down my people. I wouldn't live with that type of conscience, of having let down my people after they've been brutalized for so long. "

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

" You build dreams, you build castles in the air, and you hope that at least part of that will be realized, even under apartheid. "

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" I have a good relationship with Mandela. But I am not Mandela's product. I am the product of the masses of my country and the product of my enemy. "

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

" It is any wife's dream to lead a normal life with her family. "

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" As much as the South African racist regime is prepared to fight to the last man, so are we determined to fight to the bitter end. "

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" I believe in myself and the justice I've fought for all my life. "

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" I identify... with the ideas that Malcolm X stood for. "

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" In the normal course of things, journalists want their story, and as soon as they are through with it, they pack their cameras and go. That was never the impression that David Astor gave when you were interviewed by him. It was far deeper than that. "

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