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

- Linda Grant

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

- Linda Grant

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

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

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

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

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