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For what is a woman? Nothing, they said, while Toussine is a piece of the world, a whole country, a flash of a Negress, the boat, the sail and the wind, for she had not given in to misfortune.

Simone Schwarz-Bart

Simone Schwarz-Bart (b. 1938), Gaudeloupean author. The Bridge of Beyond, p. 28, Éditions du Seuil (1972).

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