“Fresh newsprint, good coffee, assorted texts, some messages on her BlackBerry, what more could the modern world offer?” — Margaret Drabble Modern world Copy Share Image
“Do you think preservatives make you live longer, or do they kill you off, asks Fran. She has often wondered about this.” — Margaret Drabble Preservatives Copy Share Image
“The e-reader certainly sorts out the sheep from the goats, and divides those who need to read from those who like to… — Margaret Drabble Books Copy Share Image
“Longevity has fucked up our pensions, our work–life balance, our health services, our housing, our happiness. It’s fucked up old age itself.” — Margaret Drabble Happiness Copy Share Image
I actually remember feeling delight, at two o'clock in the morning, when the baby woke for his feed, because I so longed… — Margaret Drabble Baby Copy Share Image
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it. — Margaret Drabble Misery Copy Share Image
I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never… — Margaret Drabble Addict Copy Share Image
Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer. — Margaret Drabble Comparative Copy Share Image
World War II put feminism on hold for a long time; the men went away to fight, a lot of women in… — Margaret Drabble Enjoyed Copy Share Image
There are some people who cannot get onto a train without imagining that they are about to voyage into the significant unknown;… — Margaret Drabble Body Copy Share Image
And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one… — Margaret Drabble Body Copy Share Image
“[on John Cowper Powys]...there is an indistinct photograph of the great man himself, gazing into the misty cleft of a mountain range,… — Margaret Drabble Great man Copy Share Image
My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my throat like acid reflux,… — Margaret Drabble Acid Copy Share Image
A man's greatest fear from a woman is that she will laugh at him; a woman's fear is that a man will… — Margaret Drabble Fear Copy Share Image
How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for… — Margaret Drabble Absent Copy Share Image
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place. — Margaret Drabble Approved Copy Share Image
I used to be a reasonably careless and adventurous person before I had children; now I am morbidly obsessed by seat-belts and… — Margaret Drabble Adventurous Copy Share Image
I have switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing… — Margaret Drabble Computers Copy Share Image
“She has often suspected that her last words to herself and in this world will prove to be 'You bloody old fool'… — Margaret Drabble Idiot Copy Share Image
England's not a bad country? It's just a mean, cold, ugly, divided, tired, clapped-out, post-imperial, post- industrial slag-heap covered in polystyrene hamburger… — Margaret Drabble Cold Copy Share Image
Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have… — Margaret Drabble Books Copy Share Image
There would be more genuine rejoicing at the discovery of a complete new novel by Jane Austen than any other literary discovery,… — Margaret Drabble Austen Copy Share Image
I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down. — Margaret Drabble Book Copy Share Image
Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever,… — Margaret Drabble Compelled Copy Share Image
I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I… — Margaret Drabble Admire Copy Share Image
“Here in the Black Country they call good food ‘bostin’ fittle’. Fittle means vittles. Good vittles, bostin’ fittle. They have their own… — Margaret Drabble Good food Copy Share Image
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