Contradictions Quote by Molly Peacock

“Surely there is a limit to how much evil a woman can do after she turns seventy?”

— Thomas Enger

“What if, for once in history, a woman's story could be untethered from what we need it to be in order to feel better…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“She wanted to surprise everyone by her dash and originality, but she could not help modeling herself on the last person she met, and…

— Edith Wharton

“She'd been an actress, an artist's model, once or twice a kept woman, through all a voracious reader.”

— Glen Duncan

“Is willing to accept that she creates her own reality except for some of the parts where she can't help but wonder what the…

— Brian Andreas

“Contradictions that we are, even to ourselves, it was only those who knew her intimately, and they were few and far between, who realised…

— John Gregory Betancourt

“After years of pining over something she could never have, she would choose to embrace the cold comfort of reality instead. No more daydreams…

— Julie Lessman

Playing the role of the 70-year-old woman is quite an experience.

— Sudha Chandran

“Exactly what I said: she’s still a child in many ways, so she’s discovering all the fine and noble causes for the first time,…

— Donna Leon

“For she had a great variety of selves to call upon, far more than we have been able to find room for, since a…

— Virginia Woolf

...it occurred to her how some people continued through no design of one's own to be in one's life while others might initially enter…

— Susan Minot

“She appeared to be ageless the type that would continue, unchanging, until she was an old woman when she would suddenly become senile and…

— Rosamunde Pilcher