"I was embarrassed by my parents. I thought……" — Linda Grant
"I was embarrassed by my parents. I thought they had nothing of interest to say or contribute to anything. My real crime was not understanding that they were interesting, and I have been trying to make it up to them for being so indescribably blase, so genuinely uninterested and dismissive."
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Linda Grant
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11 Quotes by Linda Grant
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Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you…
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I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war…
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I'm a really hectic dreamer; I never wake up not out of a dream, and there's loads going on, lots…
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I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the…
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The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand…
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When I was in my 20s in the 1970s, I read all of Jean Rhys. I have reread very little…
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When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.
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When I was a child, on Sunday mornings the family would assemble around the blue-leather-covered gramophone to listen to records.
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Times were very hard if you were a poor, politically correct Jewish girl living in the east end of London…
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Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes…
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