"It's no fun to be a bluestocking in…" — Colleen McCullough
"It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps."
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43 Quotes by Colleen McCullough
Colleen McCullough has 43 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting…
- I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest…
- There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves…
- Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when…
- Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.
- My husband says it is very good that I have very tiny feet, because they're easier to get in my…
- Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two…
- There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they…
- The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that…
- I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have…
- My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted…
- It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice
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