“To me it was plain silly. It is so obvious that life works in terms of species rather than individuals. The individual just has to be born, to develop to the point at which it can procreate, and then to… — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
An important aspect of the ebbing of sex was that other things became interesting. Sex obliterates the individuality of young women more often than… — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
“I am not sure that digging in our past guilts is a useful occupation for the very old, given that one can do so… — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
“We must always remember that we are only midwives—if we want praise for progeny we must give birth to our own.” — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
“To me it was plain silly. It is so obvious that life works in terms of species rather than individuals. The individual just has… — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
“She was an object lesson on the essential luck, whatever hardships may come their way, of those born able to make things.” — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
“Dwindling energy is one of the most boring things about being old. From time to time you get a day when it seems to… — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
The extension of power offered by a pony, the ease and speed of movement, the tapping of unsuspected courage, the satisfaction of collaboration with… — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
“All through my sixties I felt I was still within hailing distance of middle age, not safe on its shores, perhaps, but navigating its… — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
“Generally office and home were far apart, and home was much more important than office. I was not ashamed of valuing my private life… — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
You don't always have to go so far as to murder your darlings – those turns of phrase or images of which you felt… — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
“I have heard people bewailing man's landing on the moon, as though before it was touched by an astronaut's foot it was made of… — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
“How, then, does the written word work? What part of a reader absorbs it - or should that be a double question: what part… — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
