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Scenery can be a violent stimulant.
— Margaret Drabble
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
— Margaret Drabble
Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.
— Margaret Drabble
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
Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die ...
— Margaret Drabble
What foolsmiddle-classgirls are to expect other people to respect the same gods as themselves and E M Forster.
— Margaret Drabble
Nothing fails like failure.
— Margaret Drabble
Happiness is for those who can live in a warm climate.
— Margaret Drabble
London, how could one ever be tired of it?
— Margaret Drabble
Mid-life crises, in Fran's ageing view, are a luxury compared with what she has seen of end-of-life crises.
— Margaret Drabble
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
Lucky in work, unlucky in love.
— Margaret Drabble
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
Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
— Margaret Drabble
I don't see how you can go too far, in the right direction
— Margaret Drabble
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
Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?
— Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
— Margaret Drabble
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
Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.
— Margaret Drabble
When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
— Margaret Drabble
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
Too much of the world was inhospitable, intractable ... Why prove that it had ever once been green?
— Margaret Drabble
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
On one thing professionals and amateurs agree: mothers can't win.
— Margaret Drabble
The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.
— Margaret Drabble
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
Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.
— Margaret Drabble
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
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
