Today is the birthday of Beryl
Bainbridge, born in 1934.
- Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.
- What we remember is probably fiction anyway.
- I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everyone speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.
- A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.
- There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to essentials than to live beneath the sky.
- Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.
- The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour.
- Some people find it comfortable to go through life on their knees, and good luck to them, but I prefer to keep my spine in the position nature intended.
- I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.
- Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.
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