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Margaret Drabble Quotes
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And there isn’t any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would end up with oneself as what? There simply doesn’t seem to be any moral place for flesh. (Margaret Drabble Quotes)
A man’s greatest fear from a woman is that she will laugh at him; a woman’s fear is that a man will kill her. (Margaret Drabble Quotes)
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary It is, perpetually, a dangerous place (Margaret Drabble Quotes)
You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person. (Margaret Drabble Quotes)
I actually remember feeling delight, at two o’clock in the morning, when the baby woke for his feed, because I so longed to have another look at him. (Margaret Drabble Quotes)
England’s not a bad country? It’s just a mean, cold, ugly, divided, tired, clapped-out, post-imperial, post- industrial slag-heap covered in polystyrene hamburger cartons. 286 (Margaret Drabble Quotes)
There are some writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote nothing like enough to satisfy their admirers, and Jane Austen is certainly one of these (Margaret Drabble Quotes)
On one thing professionals and amateurs agree: mothers can’t win (Margaret Drabble Quotes)
London, how could one ever be tired of it? (Margaret Drabble Quotes)
Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all (Margaret Drabble Quotes)
Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts (Margaret Drabble Quotes)
Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer (Margaret Drabble Quotes)
Nothing fails like failure (Margaret Drabble Quotes)
Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure (Margaret Drabble Quotes)
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom (Margaret Drabble Quotes)
Why can’t people be both flexible and efficient? (Margaret Drabble Quotes)
The women are always vixens or monsters. They can’t just be normal people in the book (Margaret Drabble Quotes)
And there isn’t any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would end up with oneself as what? There simply doesn’t seem to be any moral place for flesh (Margaret Drabble Quotes)
Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations (Margaret Drabble Quotes)
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it (Margaret Drabble Quotes)
Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace (Margaret Drabble Quotes)
The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: The past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out (Margaret Drabble Quotes)
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it (Margaret Drabble Quotes)
Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view (Margaret Drabble Quotes)
I’d rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore (Margaret Drabble Quotes)
I’ve always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down (Margaret Drabble Quotes)
I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I’ll be all right; I’ve got a few veg (Margaret Drabble Quotes)
Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die (Margaret Drabble Quotes)
How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need or obligation to do, simply because it seems to be expected (Margaret Drabble Quotes)
How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever (Margaret Drabble Quotes)
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