Class Quote by Margaret Drabble

“What foolsmiddle-classgirls are to expect other people to respect the same gods as themselves and E M Forster.” quote by Margaret Drabble — Download Open image

“What foolsmiddle-classgirls are to expect other people to respect the same gods as themselves and E M Forster.”

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“Fresh newsprint, good coffee, assorted texts, some messages on her BlackBerry, what more could the modern world offer?”

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When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

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The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future…

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Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.

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How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

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World War II put feminism on hold for a long time; the men went away to fight, a lot of women in those years…

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Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

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Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

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