"There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them."
"Most people would rather eat inside a windowless room in which they have just defecated than eat inside one in which someone else has just farted, even if the room does not have a toilet."
"The trail of lime trees outside our building is still a public loo. …where else are they supposed to go to the toilet in a city where public toilets are about as common as UFO sightings?” (pp.281-82)"
- Sarah Turnbull