Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
About Margaret Drabble
Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd, is an English biographer, novelist and short story writer.
Drabble’s books include The Millstone (1965), which won the following year’s John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, and Jerusalem the Golden, which won the 1967 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
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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.
British novelist, biographer, and critic
Nothing fails like failure.
British novelist, biographer, and critic
Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
British novelist, biographer, and critic
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
British novelist, biographer, and critic
When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
British novelist, biographer, and critic
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
British novelist, biographer, and critic
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.
British novelist, biographer, and critic