--- title: "1 Auntie Quotes By Margaret Drabble" description: "1 Auntie quotes by Margaret Drabble. Plus more from Margaret Drabble and more Auntie sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/163/margaret-drabble-10413_age_auntie-phyl-s-last-months-in-the-care-ho_940559.png" --- > [Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate enough to die swiftly and suddenly, in full possession of our faculties and our fate, but more and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/auntie-phyl-s-last-months-in-the-care-home-were-extra-pieces-age-is/) [Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-drabble/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/163/margaret-drabble-10413_age_auntie-phyl-s-last-months-in-the-care-ho_940559.png) ## Other authors on Auntie ## More by Margaret Drabble > [“Fresh newsprint, good coffee, assorted texts, some messages on her BlackBerry, what more could the modern world offer?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/fresh-newsprint-good-coffee-assorted-texts-some-messages-on-her/) [Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-drabble/) > [When nothing is sure, everything is possible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/when-nothing-is-sure-everything-is-possible/) [Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-drabble/) > [The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/the-middle-years-caught-between-children-and-parents-free-of-neither/) [Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-drabble/) > [Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/sometimes-it-seems-the-only-accomplishment-my-education-ever-bestowed/) [Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-drabble/) > [I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/i-confidently-predict-the-collapse-of-capitalism-and-the-beginning-of/) [Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-drabble/) > [“Minor talents or failing talents ask much of those who associate with them. They suck, they cling, they sour, they devour, and they can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/minor-talents-or-failing-talents-ask-much-of-those-who-associate-with/) [Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/how-unjust-life-is-to-make-physical-charm-so-immediately-apparent-or/) [Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-drabble/) > [World War II put feminism on hold for a long time; the men went away to fight, a lot of women in those years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/world-war-ii-put-feminism-on-hold-for-a-long-time-the-men-went-away/) [Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-drabble/) > [Scenery can be a violent stimulant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/scenery-can-be-a-violent-stimulant/) [Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-drabble/) > [“Doing a jigsaw was not an intelligence test, or a personality assesment programme; it was a pursuit that lay somewhere between creation and imitation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/doing-a-jigsaw-was-not-an-intelligence-test-or-a-personality/) [Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-drabble/) > [How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/how-extraordinary-people-are-that-they-get-themselves-into-such/) [Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-drabble/) > [Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/nothing-succeeds-they-say-like-success-and-certainly-nothing-fails/) [Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-drabble/) > [“I don't see how you can go too far, in the right direction”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/i-don-t-see-how-you-can-go-too-far-in-the-right-direction/) [Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/some-of-what-we-read-in-classical-literature-is-not-relative-to-our/) [Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-drabble/) > [“The dining area of the Premier Inn is geared to dispel elderly apprehensions, not to reinforce them. It is noisy and colourful and full…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/the-dining-area-of-the-premier-inn-is-geared-to-dispel-elderly/) [Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-drabble/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/auntie/margaret-drabble/#itemlist", "name": "1 Auntie Quotes By Margaret Drabble", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate enough to die swiftly and suddenly, in full possession of our faculties and our fate, but more and more of us will be condemned to linger, at the mercy of anxious or indifferent relatives, careless strangers, unwanted medical interventions, increasing debility, incontinence, memory loss. 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