I used to be a reasonably careless and adventurous person before I had children; now I am morbidly obsessed by seat-belts and constantly afraid that low-flying aircraft will drop on my children's school.
When nothing is sure, everything is possible. - Margaret Drabble
When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
- Margaret Drabble
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.
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…
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…
Nothing fails like failure - Margaret Drabble
Nothing fails like failure
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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