283 Quotes by Emma Donoghue

Only for the duration, of course, for the foreseeable future, as the posters said. Though I was having trouble foreseeing any future. How would we ever get back to normal after the pandemic.

Sitting watching Anna’s eyelids flicker some hours later, Lib found herself longing for the sleep she should have had that afternoon. But this was an old battle, and like any nurse, she knew she could win if she spoke to herself severely enough. The.

I think I read Susan Brownmiller’s classic book called “Femininity” when I was about 16. So yeah, it’s been part of my mindset since a very early age. To me, what’s crucial is to tell women’s stories but also to tell them in a way that is fearless.

Men never feel quite the same about a woman’s body once they know it’s done that thing: widened and torn to push out a baby’s head.

I hate desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework.

How could the child bear not just the hunger, but the boredom? The rest of humankind used meals to divide the day, Lib realized – as a reward, as entertainment, the chiming of an inner clock. For Anna, during this watch, each day had to pass like one endless moment.

She struggled to think of one day in more than fifteen years of life when instead of drifting along like a leaf on the river she’d simply grabbed what she wanted. The.

I think there are few films out there that take motherhood seriously.

I read a lot of social history. If I’m in an art gallery and a picture intrigues me, I immediately write down the title and I google it. I do a lot of googling and looking out for good stories. I can almost smell them sometimes.