79 Quotes by Margaret Drabble

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.

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

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

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

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

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

How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need or obligation to do, simply because it seems to be expected.

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 factories - at all social levels - which they enjoyed very much. A lot of them were quite happy during the war.

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