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> [“What is not challenged from outside is open to corruption from within. -This is the infinite value of a dissenting voice: that where it is not allowed to flourish, an institution- a school or an orphanage or a government or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nuala-o-faolain/what-is-not-challenged-from-outside-is-open-to-corruption-from-within/)

[Nuala O'Faolain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nuala-o-faolain/)

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## More by Nuala O'Faolain

> [“...time is the third party to every relationship.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nuala-o-faolain/time-is-the-third-party-to-every-relationship/)

[Nuala O'Faolain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nuala-o-faolain/)

> [Novels are completed when they are finished, but the memoir changes its own conclusion by virtue of being written... I was not at all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nuala-o-faolain/novels-are-completed-when-they-are-finished-but-the-memoir-changes/)

[Nuala O'Faolain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nuala-o-faolain/)

> [Lovers are allowed to be as cruel as anything to the one who dissappoints them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nuala-o-faolain/lovers-are-allowed-to-be-as-cruel-as-anything-to-the-one-who/)

[Nuala O'Faolain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nuala-o-faolain/)

> [If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nuala-o-faolain/if-there-were-nothing-else-reading-would-obviously-be-worth-living-for/)

[Nuala O'Faolain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nuala-o-faolain/)

> [“...Though it seemed trivial, now, to describe a place as if what is was, was what I could see of it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nuala-o-faolain/though-it-seemed-trivial-now-to-describe-a-place-as-if-what-is-was/)

[Nuala O'Faolain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nuala-o-faolain/)

> [..though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nuala-o-faolain/though-silence-must-add-intensity-to-your-intimate-moments-it-must/)

[Nuala O'Faolain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nuala-o-faolain/)

> [“States have no goodness. They suppress these villains here and promote those villains there, with no aim but self-aggrandizement.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nuala-o-faolain/states-have-no-goodness-they-suppress-these-villains-here-and-promote/)

[Nuala O'Faolain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nuala-o-faolain/)

> [“...when I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness under every soft appearance.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nuala-o-faolain/when-i-was-young-i-learned-to-feel-for-the-harshness-under-every-soft/)

[Nuala O'Faolain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nuala-o-faolain/)

> [“I tried not to think about it. But every so often it would burst out of me - why did he do something so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nuala-o-faolain/i-tried-not-to-think-about-it-but-every-so-often-it-would-burst-out/)

[Nuala O'Faolain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nuala-o-faolain/)

> [My life burned inside me. Even such as it was, it was the only record of me, and it was my only creation, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nuala-o-faolain/my-life-burned-inside-me-even-such-as-it-was-it-was-the-only-record/)

[Nuala O'Faolain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nuala-o-faolain/)

> [I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nuala-o-faolain/i-did-believe-from-my-experience-of-life-and-of-looking-at-the-world/)

[Nuala O'Faolain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nuala-o-faolain/)

> [“There was nothing between the man and me - - nothing, not even liking. But because of the memory of some wholeness, or the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nuala-o-faolain/there-was-nothing-between-the-man-and-me-nothing-not-even-liking-but/)

[Nuala O'Faolain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nuala-o-faolain/)

> [“What makes a woman into a doormat? What makes her see some quite ordinary other person as a looming Goliath? And are not these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nuala-o-faolain/what-makes-a-woman-into-a-doormat-what-makes-her-see-some-quite/)

[Nuala O'Faolain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nuala-o-faolain/)

> [“They're fathers second, Jimmy said. They're men first.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nuala-o-faolain/they-re-fathers-second-jimmy-said-they-re-men-first/)

[Nuala O'Faolain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nuala-o-faolain/)

> [“But you know, there's one simple thing I see absolutely clearly, now that I am so very old. I looked at her. The Albert…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nuala-o-faolain/but-you-know-there-s-one-simple-thing-i-see-absolutely-clearly-now/)

[Nuala O'Faolain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nuala-o-faolain/)

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