When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

- Margaret Drabble

Nothing fails like failure

- Margaret Drabble

World War II put feminism on hold for a long time; the men went away to fight, a lot of women in those years got jobs both in teaching and in factori…

- Margaret Drabble

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

- Margaret Drabble

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

- Margaret Drabble

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 i…

- Margaret Drabble

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

What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell me what the meaning of …

- Margaret Drabble

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

- Margaret Drabble