Quote by Maggie O'Farrell Download Open image ““Two women in a room. One seated, one standing”” — Maggie O'Farrell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“In the waiting room, ladies in a picturesque group surrounded a table with magazines. They stood, sat, or half reclined in the poses they… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“...a row of tables manned by seated, serious women. Each woman looked like she could be someone's least-favourite aunt.” — Adam Rex Copy Share Image
“Only one woman exists in this world, one woman with countless faces.” — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“Women and men are lost in the same labyrinth .. on different floors.” — Bogdan Vaida Copy Share Image
“They just stood there, regarding each other silently, the room suddenly as quiet as the elevator had been, as comfortable as the kitchen floor,… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“an audience is half women and half men, women worry about the reaction of the men around them. But” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“All of her mannerisms, even her way of sitting, are of a perfect femininity. Or: how to occupy the least possible amount of space… — Anne Garréta Copy Share Image
“She sat, with her feet pointed towards the other. She sat, waiting for something, or someone, to save her from the startling revelation that… — Alexx Bollen Copy Share Image
“One after another, they were examined. One after another, they proved to have nothing to say--and said it (so far as the women were… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“Flopping down in the chair I had been seating in only moments ago, I put my elbows on my knees and dropped my head… — Jocelynn Drake Copy Share Image
She wanted to say, no. She wanted to say, I have a son, there is a child, this cannot happen. Because you know that no one will ever love them like you do. You know that no one will look after them like you do. You know that it's an impossibility, it's unthinkable that you could be taken away, that… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share
Two and a half thousand left-handed people are killed every year using things made for right-handed people. — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
I don't believe in fate. I don't believe in cushioning your insecurities with a system of belief that tells you 'Don't worry. This may… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
I met a retired police detective. And he said to me that the interesting thing about heatwaves, from a police perspective, is that the number of people who just walk out of their lives when the weather gets unbearable is astronomic. He said the police prepare themselves for it - for a huge rise in the instances of missing persons.… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share
While I was writing the book, one of my children was diagnosed with dyslexia. Dyslexia is a very tiny word for a wide-ranging neurological condition that affects different people in different ways. But I was reading an awful lot about it, to try and find ways of helping my child. I think a lot of fiction comes from this desire… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share
“Why is it that twenty-four hours in the company of your family is capable of reducing you to a teenager?” — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
I think it's dangerous to have lots of time on your hands as a writer. Time to pursue every little alleyway, to follow every… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
I think all families have these secrets, and it's sometimes the strangest things that bring them out. That was part of my interest in the heatwave, in heat as a catalyst for uncovering truths. I was reading Alice in Wonderland to one of my kids recently, and I remembered that it starts on a really hot day. Alice falls asleep… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share
My husband, William Sutcliffe, the writer, is my first reader and in many ways my most important. That initial reading of the manuscript is crucial and irreplaceable and you want them to approach it as someone in a bookshop might, not knowing much about it. So I've got into this pattern of not telling Will anything about the book I'm… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share
She liked the way his smile took a long time to arrive and just as long to leave. — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
“That's because they're of the past. All photos of the past look melancholy and wistful precisely because they capture something that's gone.” — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
We always planned to move back to the Republic but it never happened, I'm not sure why. My dad is one of those immigrants… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
