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It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth. — Helen Garner

My years as a mystic have made me question almost all my assumptions. They've made me a proud I-don't-know-it-all. — Elizabeth Lesser

People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver. — Helen Garner

I am terrified of being misjudged by thousands of faceless Twitterers. — Lucy Punch

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society. — Helen Garner

I want to talk WITH someone, not be talked at BY someone. — Elizabeth Rudnick

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching. — Helen Garner

I had always thought that sorrow was the most exhausting of the emotions. Now I knew that it was anger. — Helen Garner

So much history behind and between people, one moment was always a nasty echo of another time, most of who you were already scripted. — Nalo Hopkinson

I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will. — Helen Garner

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque. — Helen Garner

There is always a new flavor of the month, especially in film. — Wendy Raquel Robinson

Judges are men who in the cool of the evening undo work that better men do in the heat of the day. — Helen Garner

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall. — Helen Garner

That's the best thing that's ever happened to me, bar none, is having grandchildren and living by them and being part of their lives. — Helen Garner

No man fails who does his best. — Orison Swett Marden

It seems to me in the past it's been a good thing, as a writer, to have experiences I hadn't expected. — Louise Gluck

I like poking my nose into other people's lives. — Helen Garner

I don't believe that anything's totally invented ... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it. — Helen Garner

Everybody's looking for their tiny piece of meaning. Some fleeting, perfect thing that might make them more alive. — Kate Tempest

Janet Malcolm's probably the writer I most admire and who's most influenced me. — Helen Garner

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life. — Helen Garner

I think writers are very anxious. — Helen Garner

But there are some wounds that can never be healed. — Helen Garner

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves. — Helen Garner

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence. — Helen Garner

Maybe this is pathetic, but I still dread producing a book that doesn't earn back its advance. I hate obligations that are financially foggy. — Helen Garner