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Margaret Drabble quotes: Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

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: 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: 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: Before Octavia was born, I used to think that love bore some relation to merit and to beauty, but now I saw that this was not so.

Before Octavia was born, I used to think that love bore some relation to merit and to beauty, but now I saw that this was not so.

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: 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: Nothing fails like failure.

Nothing fails like failure.

Margaret Drabble quotes: Happiness is for those who can live in a warm climate.

Happiness is for those who can live in a warm climate.

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

London, how could one ever be tired of it?

Margaret Drabble quotes: Mid-life crises, in Fran's ageing view, are a luxury compared with what she has seen of end-of-life crises.

Mid-life crises, in Fran's ageing view, are a luxury compared with what she has seen of end-of-life crises.

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: Lucky in work, unlucky in love.

Lucky in work, unlucky in love.

Margaret Drabble quotes: He talks a lot, but he talks about cars and golf and keeping fit. Fran likes trivia, but she's more interested in female trivia than male. Teresa

He talks a lot, but he talks about cars and golf and keeping fit. Fran likes trivia, but she's more interested in female trivia than male. Teresa

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 don't see how you can go too far, in the right direction

I don't see how you can go too far, in the right direction

Margaret Drabble quotes: Maybe the human species has evolved too far, maybe we all move around too much, too pointlessly, and consciousness will implode upon itself.

Maybe the human species has evolved too far, maybe we all move around too much, too pointlessly, and consciousness will implode upon itself.

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

Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?

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: 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: 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: When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

Margaret Drabble quotes: The e-reader certainly sorts out the sheep from the goats, and divides those who need to read from those who like to turn the pages.

The e-reader certainly sorts out the sheep from the goats, and divides those who need to read from those who like to turn the pages.

Margaret Drabble quotes: Too much of the world was inhospitable, intractable ... Why prove that it had ever once been green?

Too much of the world was inhospitable, intractable ... Why prove that it had ever once been green?

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: A man's greatest fear from a woman is that she will laugh at him; a woman's fear is that a man will kill her.

A man's greatest fear from a woman is that she will laugh at him; a woman's fear is that a man will kill her.

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: 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: 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.