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.
When nothing is sure, everything is possible. - Margaret Drabble
When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
- Margaret Drabble
Nothing fails like failure - Margaret Drabble
Nothing fails like failure
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
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…
Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts. - Margaret Drabble
Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.
Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure. - Margaret Drabble
Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
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
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…
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
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.
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
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 …
Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations. - Margaret Drabble
Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.
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