5 Quotes by Patricia Duncker

Freedom: both so priceless and so expensive.

The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.

Suddenly, she employed those very English weapons: devious good manners and a rapid change of subject.

They were from different generations, culture, nations. But even these things did not divide them so much as their separate conceptions of what it meant to be a woman.

And that is the loneliness of seeing a different world from that of the people around you. Their lives remain remote from yours. You can see the gulf and they can’t.