Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead to ignoble actions and that we wer…

- Linda Grant

Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all the clothes you have ever…

- Linda Grant

When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.

- Linda Grant

The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically adva…

- Linda Grant

It's not the punch you expect that knocks you down.

- Linda Grant

Revenge is so much more satisfying than regret.

- Linda Grant

I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a defining experience. You went o r you didn't, but …

- Linda Grant

The clothes you wear are a metamorphosis. They change you from the outside in.

- Linda Grant

A new dress. Is this all it takes to make a new beginning, this shred of dyed cloth, shaped into the form of a woman's body?

- Linda Grant