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Margaret Drabble
English
Novelist
About the author
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
Margaret Drabble,
English
Novelist
#Life
#Family
#Choices
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
Margaret Drabble,
English
Novelist
#Being
#Pleasure
#Misery
When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
Margaret Drabble,
English
Novelist
#Nothing
Nothing fails like failure.
Margaret Drabble,
English
Novelist
#Nothing
#Failure
And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would end up with oneself as what? There simply doesn't seem to be any moral place for flesh.
Margaret Drabble,
English
Novelist
#Saying
#End
#Society
#Body
#Guilt
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.
Margaret Drabble,
English
Novelist
#Mind
#Reality
Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
Margaret Drabble,
English
Novelist
#Success
#Nothing
#Failure