Margaret Drabble

Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.

Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.