Beryl Bainbridge Quotes
The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour
Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.
Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.
It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.
The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.
Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different.
There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.
It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.
I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.
Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.
The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large refuse bin.
There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course - the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled
I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.
