3 Quotes by Caroline Moorehead

Martha had been struck by a line in a Doris Lessing novel – “I don’t enjoy pleasure” – and decided that what she enjoyed in life were surprises and work. “But it’s alarming,” she wrote to Teecher, “to grow less and less gregarious. I can hardly bear social occasions; I feel as if I’d written the script long ago.” While.

I had to hold fast to the end, and die of living.

Cornered, she seemed to possess no mechanism for behaving well. By the same token, when not trapped or obliged to confront people or situations that upset her, she had a particular ability to think about them with apparently genuine pleasure. Martha.