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Margaret Drabble Quotes: "How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever."

How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.



Margaret Drabble Quotes: "Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place."

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.




Margaret Drabble Quotes: "Scenery can be a violent stimulant."

Scenery can be a violent stimulant.



Margaret Drabble Quotes: "Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die."

Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die.




Margaret Drabble Quotes: "Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all."

Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all.



Margaret Drabble Quotes: "The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book."

The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.



Margaret Drabble Quotes: "Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?"

Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?




Margaret Drabble Quotes: "Nothing fails like failure"

Nothing fails like failure



Margaret Drabble Quotes: "The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom."

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.



Margaret Drabble Quotes: "Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it."

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.



Margaret Drabble Quotes: "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 in defeat there is no peace."

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 in defeat there is no peace.



Margaret Drabble Quotes: "Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts."

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




Margaret Drabble Quotes: "I actually remember feeling delight, at two o'clock in the morning, when the baby woke for his feed, because I so longed to have another look at him."

I actually remember feeling delight, at two o'clock in the morning, when the baby woke for his feed, because I so longed to have another look at him.



Margaret Drabble Quotes: "What foolsmiddle-classgirls are to expect other people to respect the same gods as themselves and E M Forster."

What foolsmiddle-classgirls are to expect other people to respect the same gods as themselves and E M Forster.



Margaret Drabble Quotes: "England's not a bad country? It's just a mean, cold, ugly, divided, tired, clapped-out, post-imperial, post- industrial slag-heap covered in polystyrene hamburger cartons. 286"

England's not a bad country? It's just a mean, cold, ugly, divided, tired, clapped-out, post-imperial, post- industrial slag-heap covered in polystyrene hamburger cartons. 286



Margaret Drabble Quotes: "I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore."

I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.



Margaret Drabble Quotes: "On one thing professionals and amateurs agree: mothers can't win."

On one thing professionals and amateurs agree: mothers can't win.



Margaret Drabble Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "There are some writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote nothing like enough to satisfy their admirers, and Jane Austen is certainly one of these."

There are some writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote nothing like enough to satisfy their admirers, and Jane Austen is certainly one of these.



Margaret Drabble Quotes: "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."

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.



Margaret Drabble Quotes: "Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer."

Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.



Margaret Drabble Quotes: "I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down."

I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.



Margaret Drabble Quotes: "If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them."

If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.



Margaret Drabble Quotes: "Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations."

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



Margaret Drabble Quotes: "Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure."

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



Margaret Drabble Quotes: "I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try."

I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.



Margaret Drabble Quotes: "I have switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing solitaire upon it."

I have switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing solitaire upon it.



Margaret Drabble Quotes: "There would be more genuine rejoicing at the discovery of a complete new novel by Jane Austen than any other literary discovery, short of a new major play by Shakespeare."

There would be more genuine rejoicing at the discovery of a complete new novel by Jane Austen than any other literary discovery, short of a new major play by Shakespeare.



Margaret Drabble Quotes: "Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view."

Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.



Margaret Drabble Quotes: "London, how could one ever be tired of it?"

London, how could one ever be tired of it?



Margaret Drabble Quotes: "The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermit-tent gloom."

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermit-tent gloom.



Margaret Drabble Quotes: "I actually remember feeling delight at two o'clock in the morning when the baby woke for his feed because I so longed to have another look at him."

I actually remember feeling delight at two o'clock in the morning when the baby woke for his feed because I so longed to have another look at him.



Margaret Drabble Quotes: "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."

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.



Margaret Drabble Quotes: "When nothing is sure everything is possible."

When nothing is sure everything is possible.



Margaret Drabble Quotes: "It is to be doubted whether anybody who said good-bye to Bert had any faith or interest whatsoever in the life everlasting. This life had, some of them thought, been quite bad enough."

It is to be doubted whether anybody who said good-bye to Bert had any faith or interest whatsoever in the life everlasting. This life had, some of them thought, been quite bad enough.